Word: ignazio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, the more courageous broke with the party. In The God that Failed, six of them tell the stories of their Communist pilgrimage, and the return trip. It is as goodly a company of such pilgrims as has yet been collected in one volume: there are Novelists Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Journalist Louis Fischer, Poet Stephen Spender, and there is an introduction by British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman, who thinks that but for his own "nonconformist cussedness" he might have been tempted by Communism himself. The stories the six contributors tell may be read as strange...