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Word: ignazio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction writer. The House by the Medlar Tree and Little Novels of Sicily were powerful stories about Sicilian peasants whose harshly tragic existence could not destroy their stubborn dignity. Another famed Italian brought out his first novel in eleven years; A Handful of Blackberries proved that ex-Communist Ignazio Silone knows where the rot of Communism lies and still has enough of his old novelist's skill to expose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...HANDFUL OF BLACKBERRIES (314 pp.) -Ignazio Si lone-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italian Earnestness | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Ignazio Silone is an Italian idealist who has spent a good part of a lifetime alternating between books and politics; the constant thing about Silone is that he has always been for the persecuted against the persecutors, as Ignazio Silone saw them. In his 20s he was a Communist, hopping back & forth between Stalin's Moscow and the underground in Mussolini's Italy. By his 303 he had seen enough of both totalitarianisms; he settled down in free Switzerland, wrote his famed novels of the Italian peasantry, Fontamara and Bread and Wine. After World War II, he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italian Earnestness | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

Novelist Silone has not lost his talent for making simple people speak simple, barbed truths. Although his novel will be too earnest for stylists, it is a rewarding one. And it is heated with the warmth of Ignazio Silone's human kindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Italian Earnestness | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...French weekly magazine Arts, Italian Socialist Ignazio Silone, ex-Communist novelist (Fontamara, Bread and Wine), protested the manner in which the word freedom is bandied about: "Whenever a number of intellectuals get together to debate the grave problems of our world, at least one of them, in an effort to ennoble the discussion, will begin talking of the Good, the True . . . After having heard the term 'freedom of thought' mentioned for the 54th time, a stale smell gradually invades the room, an odor which reminds me of fried fish. Discussions about Freedom are bound to remain sterile, unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Time & Tides | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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