Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone

Pugliese, Stanislao G.

ISBN 10: 0374113483 / ISBN 13: 9780374113483

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 2009

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing. Attached to front end page is a handwritten SIGNED thank you letter from author mentioning 'Bitter Spring'. $35.00 price present on DJ flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374113483
• ISBN 13: 9780374113483
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: AUTHOR SIGNED on LETTER

About this title

Synopsis

One of the major figures of twentieth-century European literature, Ignazio Silone (1900 78) is the subject of this award-winning new biography by the noted Italian historian Stanislao G. Pugliese. A founding member of the Italian Communist Party, Silone took up writing only after being expelled from the PCI and garnered immediate success with his first book, Fontamara, the most influential and widely translated work of antifascism in the 1930s. In World War II, the U.S. Army printed unauthorized versions of it, along with Silone s Bread and Wine, and distributed them throughout Italy during the country s Nazi occupation. During the cold war, he was an outspoken opponent of Soviet oppression and was twice considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.Twenty years after his death, Silone was the object of controversy when reports arose indicating that he had been an informant for the Fascist police. Pugliese s biography, the most comprehens

About the Author

Stanislao G. Pugliese is a professor of modern European history at Hofstra University. A former fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the University of Oxford, he is the author of Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile and the translator of Silone's Memoir from a Swiss Prison.