Name: Fontamara
Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)
ISBN: 9783462025996

Ignazio Silone

Roman

Fontamara

Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.' He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. The story itself is a good read, told with humour and suspense. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital message in a fraught time. This edition includes an introduction and notes which help to set the novel in its historical and political context, both in Italy and the rest of Europe in the decade before the Second World War. The vocabulary section is exhaustive, making the text suitable for those just coming to grips with the language.

Scritto durante il ventennio, Silone era in esilio. Scorre, diverte e fa incazzare allo stesso tempo, moderno e forse addirittura avanguardista per il 2026. Chissà quante copie hanno alimentato il camino di palazzo Venezia in quegli anni.

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Fuente Amarga es un pequeño pueblo en el sur de Italia, rodeado por campos áridos a los que los hombres entregan la vida. Un pueblo como muchos, que sin embargo, para quien nace y crece allí, es el cosmos, con sus leyes universales e inmutables. En Fuente Amarga, los «paletos» sufren injusticias y abusos tan atávicos que les parecen naturales como la lluvia y el viento; y la escalera social para ellos tiene dos peldaños: la condición de gleba a ras de suelo y, solo un poco más arriba, la de los pequeños propietarios. Por encima de todos (y de todo), inalcanzables en su condición de caprichosos semidioses, los señores de la tierra, perpetuos custodios del poder al que sirven y representan según el soplo del viento de cada época. Con el advenimiento de la dictadura fascista, el orden social se tambalea, y sobre los fuenteamargados se desencadenan nuevos abusos que constituyen el relato de esta novela.

Fuente Amarga

Miguel Angel Palmer Salva

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Francesca Agata 

La vita di desolazione e sfruttamento di una comunità contadina nell'Italia meridionale. Una saga dolorosa di uomini che subiscono l'ingiustizia e la sopraffazione come ineluttabili, fino all'inevitabile ribellione. Un romanzo-testimonianza di grande forza poetica, capolavoro di Silone.

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