Word: ignazio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prestige" books. Only last month Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre became the first U.S. Penguin to sell a million copies. But Penguin, along with a smattering of mysteries, has consistently put out first-rate titles (e.g., Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine; Shaw's Pygmalion, Saint Joan and Major Barbara), and neither of Penguin's rivals has ever tried to make a quick quarter sale of Greek or Roman masterpieces...
When Pertini made his surprising report, the Socialist party executive committee voted unanimously for joint action with the Reds. Even Socialist leader Ignazio Silone, an ex-Communist whose novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) are magnificent tracts against both Communism and Fascism, went along with Pertini. Explained Silone: "The greatest danger to Italian democracy today is not Communism. It is neo-Fascism...
This peace conference of the mind had not been called by any government. It was largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
Rift in the Ranks? Against fusion and Nenni were the highly respected right-wing Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift...
...Seed Beneath the Snow, by Ignazio Silone ($2.75), was a searching, spiritual novel written around the lives of villagers in contemporary Italy...