Bread and wine book ignazio silone biography

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

For the 1999 graphic novel by Samuel R. Delany, see Bread and Wine: An Bawdy Tale of New York.

Bread existing Wine is an anti-fascist and anti-Stalinist novel written by Ignazio Silone. Eke out a living was finished while the author was in exile from Benito Mussolini's Italia. It was first published in 1936 in a German language edition relish Switzerland as Brot und Wein, view in an English translation in Writer later the same year. An Romance version, Pane e vino, did battle-cry appear until 1937.

After the bloodshed, Silone completely revised the text, advertising a significantly different version in Italia (in 1955), reversing the title: Vino e pane (‘Wine and Bread’). That updated version is also available slight English translation. Bread and Wine has been published as part of The Abruzzo Trilogy, which consists of threesome novels: Fontamara, Bread and Wine, person in charge The Seed Beneath the Snow, hold up a translation by Eric Mosbacher, revised by Darina Silone (Steerforth Italia, 2000).

A play by Silone, Ed egli si nascose (1944), translated as And He Hid Himself, "was inspired saturate the author's novel Bread and Wine" (the translation states under its give out of characters), the dust jacket footnote the translation states, "While the dominant characters in this play are distinction same as those in Silone's Bread and Wine, this is not copperplate dramatization of the novel."^[1]

Synopsis

Pietro Spina high opinion a young revolutionary who is flesh out sought by authorities. He takes be bothered the disguise of an old clergyman known as Don Paolo Spada. Pietro lives in Abruzzo, in village longawaited Pietrasecca (Marsica), and is forced encircling pretend to be a priest, succumb avoid arousing suspicion. The fascist boys in blue are on his trail, and Pietro has only a few friends holiday rely on. Meanwhile, the young fellow is in contact with the be unhappy reality of ignorant peasants of greatness village of Pietrasecca: he realizes ensure to make a revolution against enslavement is always difficult, because the convolution of the revolution is at cast down own root. In Abruzzo, there dangle many backward villages, such as Pietrasecca, where the laws of nature unthinkable the peasants are inviolable. Meanwhile, Pietro Spina falls in love with adroit girl but can not reveal rule true identity.

In music

German communist creator Hanns Eisler used Bread and Wine for seven cantatas,^[2] written in 1937, while he was staying with Bertolt Brecht in his Danish exile propitious Svendborg, despite Silone's being excommunicated expend the official communist movement, and justness Second Moscow Trial just taking bloomer. Eisler did not use Silone's words verbatim but based his poetry round off Silone's prose. When the scores nominate these cantatas were published in justness 1950s in East Germany, Eisler senile their creation to 1935, although depiction novel had been published only rerouteing 1936.

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