Ignazio Silone

Fontamara

Italian peasants resist fascism in their small village community

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Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone

Italian novelist and political activist whose Fontamara is a powerful depiction of the suffering of southern Italian peasants under fascism. His fiction has the moral urgency of a writer who experienced both fascism and Stalinist communism.

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