Word: ignazio
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EMERGENCY EXIT by Ignazio Silone. 207 pages. Harper...
...Ignazio Silone is one of the world's few gainfully employed freelance socialists. He adopted this rubric 40 years ago, after a series of political and moral crises persuaded him that Russian-dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story...
Rounding out this volume are Camus' critical essays, including those on Sartre, Ignazio Silone, Melville, Gide and Faulkner, and three interviews that he gave over the years. In one of these interviews, he was asked what compliment most annoyed him. He replied: "Honesty, conscience, humanity-you know, all the modern mouthwasnes." Yet, these qualities best describe the man who struggled so ardently to understand what it was to be simply...
...Ignazio Silone, author of "Bread and Wine," will deliver a lecture on contemporary French thought entitled "After Neo Realism: the Nihillsts and the Idolators" at 8:30 p.m. this evening in Boylston Lecture Hall...
...secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police. For days the two friends debated what to do. One of the men, Palmiro Togliatti, bowed to Moscow and with that act of trusty treachery began rising through the upper echelons to head the Italian Communist Party. The other, Ignazio Silone, refused and later left the party to write Fontamara and Bread and Wine, world-famed novels that incarnated both the plight of humble Italians and the soul of man under tyranny...