![]() ![]() The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital message in a fraught time. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. ![]() The story itself is a good read, told with humour and suspense. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. ![]() He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.' Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. ![]()
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