Communism, though little discussed now and loitering in hidden garrets on miserable straw pallets, is the dark hero destined for a great, if temporary, role in the modern tragedy. —Heinrich Heine, ...
EMERGENCY EXIT by Ignazio Silone. 207 pages. Harper & Row. $6.95. At 68, Ignazio Silone is one of the world’s few gainfully employed freelance socialists. He adopted this rubric 40 years ago, after a ...
BREAD AND WINE — Ignazio Silone — Harper ($2.50). As far as U. S. readers are concerned there are no writers left in Germany. And Italy’s literary cupboard is just as bare. But whereas Germany has ...
In June 1950, Ignazio Silone and Arthur Koestler, two of the most prominent anti-communist writers of that era, attended a convivial dinner party in West Berlin. They had gathered with several other ...
Modern Italy through one writer’s complicated life. The novels that make up the Abruzzo Trilogy were all written during Silone’s long exile in Switzerland (1929-1944), the result of his opposition to ...
“Fontamara” and “Bread and Wine,” Ignazio Silone’s passionate novels of peasant life and political awakening, are iconic works for anyone who cherishes the literature of social commitment. Inspired by ...
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