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...clearly better off with the farm in Vermont and the chalet in Gstaad. So Galbraith must see, and perhaps even relish, the irony of a sentence like the following from his memoirs: "In the next summer months in Switzerland--on the Lake of Lucerte at Sils-Maria, down at Brissago on Lago Maggiore (where Hemingway's lovers came ashore afte rowing up the lake) and at Saas Fee--I read and struggled to write on the causes of poverty...
Divided Loyalties. The moral of the episode-that it is more honorable to betray one's party than one's fellow man-underlies The Fox and the Camellias, though Silone gives it a new twist. The setting is a Swiss farm near Brissago, where the novel's hero, Daniele, maintains a secret outpost for the Italian anti-Fascist underground, as Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s. The farm is really Daniele's first loyalty, and his teen-aged daughter Silvia is his chief joy. Amid the cycle of the seasons, Silone...
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