Ignazio Silone in Exile: Writing and

Italian writer and political activist Ignazio Silone spent fifteen years from 1929 to 1944 as a political exile in Switzerland. Focusing on this period, this book throws new light on Silone's complex biography and shows how his literary production influenced and was influenced by fellow antifascist German émigrés and the Swiss socialist intelligentsia. Using previously unknown archival materials, letters, and diaries, this book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on Silone's exile that both questions and celebrates his status as an 'un-Italian' Italian author.

Deborah Holmes works at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut fur Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna, Austria.

List of Illustrations

vi

Preface

vii

List of Abbreviations

ix

Acknowledgements

x

Introduction: Silone in the Context of Comparative Exile Research

1

(24)

The Conditions of Literary Exile in Switzerland, 1929--44

25

(32)

Silone's Role in the Swiss Left-wing Press: Social Politics and Technology in information, 1932--34

57

(36)

The Reception and Rewriting of Brot und Wein/Pane e Vino: `The Story of the Human Race ... Ever-changing and Unchanging'

93

(30)

Silone's Role in the Swiss Left-wing Press: Literature and Society in Die Zeit, Das Freie Wort and Der Aufbau, (1936--44)

123

(24)

Dialogue versus Demagogy: Silone's Evolving Critique of Fascism and the Dictator Figure

147

(38)

Conclusion: `The Choice of Comrades'

185

(6)

Selected Bibliography

191

(16)

Index

207

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Ignazio Silone in Exile: Writing and Antifascism in Switzerland 1929û1944

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