Deborah Holmes
Ashgate
Hardback
226
2005
Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland. Focusing on this period this book throws new light on Silone's complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced and was influenced by fellow antifascist German ?migr?s and the Swiss socialist intelligentsia. Using previously unknown archival materials letters and diaries this book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on Silone's exile that both questions and celebrates his status as an 'un-Italian' Italian author.
Ashgate
Hardback
226
2005
Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland. Focusing on this period this book throws new light on Silone's complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced and was influenced by fellow antifascist German ?migr?s and the Swiss socialist intelligentsia. Using previously unknown archival materials letters and diaries this book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on Silone's exile that both questions and celebrates his status as an 'un-Italian' Italian author.