1st Edition
Ignazio Silone in Exile Writing and Antifascism in Switzerland 1929�1944
By Deborah Holmes
Copyright 2005
226 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland. Focusing on this period, this book throws new light on Silone's complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced and was influenced by fellow antifascist German émigrés and the Swiss socialist intelligentsia. Using previously unknown archival materials,... Read more
Contents: Preface, Introduction: Silone in the context of comparative exile research; The conditions of literary exile in Switzerland, 1929-44; Silone's role in the Swiss left-wing press: social politics and technology in information, 1932-34; The reception and rewriting of Brot und Wein/Pane e vino: 'The story of the human race... ever-changing and unchanging'; Silone's role in the Swiss left-wing press: literature and society in Die Zeit, Das freie Wort and Der Aufbau, (1936-44); Dialogue versus demagogy: Silone's evolving critique of fascism and the dictator figure; Conclusion: 'The choice of comrades'; Selected bibliography; Index.
Biography
Deborah Holmes works at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna, Austria.
’[Deborah Holmes's] scholarly approach is impreccable: one hopes that future silonisti will have the same precision and attention to detail.’ Modern Language Review
