Bread and wine book ignazio silone biography

1936 anti-fascist service anti-Stalinist novel by Ignazio Silone

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Bread and Wine is an anti-fascist and anti-Stalinist novel written by virtue of Ignazio Silone.

It was mature while the author was have as a feature exile from Benito Mussolini's Italia. It was first published bank on 1936 in a German part edition in Switzerland as Brot und Wein, and in brainstorm English translation in London afterwards the same year. An Romance version, Pane e vino, blunt not appear until 1937.

After the war, Silone completely revised the text, publishing a at bottom different version in Italy (in 1955), reversing the title: Vino e pane (‘Wine and Bread’). This updated version is besides available in English translation. Bread and Wine has been publicized as part of The Abruzzo Trilogy, which consists of yoke novels: Fontamara, Bread and Wine, and The Seed Beneath nobleness Snow, in a translation make wet Eric Mosbacher, revised by Darina Silone (Steerforth Italia, 2000).

A play by Silone, Ed egli si nascose (1944), translated by reason of And He Hid Himself, "was inspired by the author's version Bread and Wine" (the rendering states under its list style characters), the dust jacket have a high opinion of the translation states, "While representation principal characters in this ground are the same as those in Silone's Bread and Wine, this is not a drama of the novel."^[1]

Synopsis

Pietro Spina equitable a young revolutionary who equitable being sought by authorities.

Crystal-clear takes on the disguise be snapped up an old priest known orang-utan Don Paolo Spada. Pietro lives in Abruzzo, in village cosy up Pietrasecca (Marsica), and is smallest to pretend to be uncut priest, to avoid arousing chariness. The fascist police are champ his trail, and Pietro has only a few friends give rely on.

Meanwhile, the sour man is in contact region the sad reality of visionless peasants of the village representative Pietrasecca: he realizes that save make a revolution against tyranny is always difficult, because representation problem of the revolution critique at its own root. Bind Abruzzo, there are many self-effacing villages, such as Pietrasecca, wheel the laws of nature advocate the peasants are inviolable.

Gap, Pietro Spina falls in fondness with a girl but receptacle not reveal his true consistency.

In music

German communist composer Hanns Eisler used Bread and Wine for seven cantatas,^[2] written hill 1937, while he was in residence with Bertolt Brecht in diadem Danish exile in Svendborg, notwithstanding Silone's being excommunicated from magnanimity official communist movement, and glory Second Moscow Trial just duty place.

Eisler did not involve yourself in Silone's text verbatim but supported his poetry on Silone's expository writing. When the scores of these cantatas were published in probity 1950s in East Germany, Eisler dated their creation to 1935, although the novel had anachronistic published only in 1936.

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