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Violent Summer (in Italian). An old wave film of a short, sensuous, foredoomed affair played out in Fascist Italy...
...heroine and her haughty mother are sharing a villa on the beach at Riccione when word comes that Eleanora's husband has been killed in action. Dawdling around the docks is Trintignant, who, thanks to his Fascist father's political connections, has dodged the draft. He is years younger than Eleanora, but against a wistfully romantic background of coltish gaiety, parental protests, surf, sun, and sentimental period pieces like Temptation, they play out a long, sensuous, foredoomed affair...
...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 fashions a triptych of father, daughter and nature, linked...
...worm of factional politics corrupts this Eden. A handsome young Fascist operative appears in the neighborhood and high-pressures a pitiable old spinster to inform on the local Italian colony. A militant anti-Fascist friend of Daniele's beats the Fascist agent bloody. Unbeknownst to Daniele, the wounded agent is brought to the farm, and in 48 hours of nursing him, Silvia falls wildly in love with the stranger. He represents himself as a respectable accountant, and Silvia's mother is all for a wedding, but the story ends instead in an agony of divided loyalties, with each...
Beyond All Isms. A heavy interplay of curious coincidences and a shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much the world and Silone have changed from the 1930s, when left-v.-right politics was not only the ruling international passion but a kind of immutable moral law. The Fox and the Camellias is a book beyond Fascism, Communism, socialism or even humanism. It is a Christian statement, arguing essentially...