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Biography of Ignazio SiloneName: Ignazio SiloneBirth Date: May 1, 1900 Death Date: August 22, 1978 Place of Birth: Pescina dei Marsi, Abruzzi, Italy Nationality: Italian Gender: Male Occupations: writer, politician Ignazio Silone The Italian novelist and essayist Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) was one of the founding members of the Italian Communist Party. He directed international attention to Italian political and social realities and at the same time presented an unconventional picture of the Italian South.Ignazio Silone was born Secondo Tranquilli on May 1, 1900, at Pescina dei Marsi in the Abruzzi. His father was a small landowner. In 1915 Silone lost both parents and five brothers as a result of an earthquake. He received part of his education at the local seminary and continued his studies in Reggio Calabria but interrupted them at the end of World War I, when he became interested in politics. The circumstances forced him, as he once said, to endure firsthand three essential experiences: poverty, religion, and communism. Thus he took part in the founding of the Italian Communist party (PCI) in 1921 as a representative of the Socialist Youth movement. Subsequently, …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…analysis of Silone's literary works is in Italian. English profiles: Hanne, Michael, The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change, Berghahn Books, 1994; Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Great Political Stories, Dell, 1992; Woodcock, George, Writers and Politics, Black Rose, 1990; Origo, Iris, A Need to Testify: Portraits of Lauro de Bosis, Ruth Draper, Gaetano Salvemini, Ignazio Silone, and an Essay on Biography, John Murray, 1984. Also see "Socialism and Sensibility" in The New Republic October 26, 1987, and "The Last Hours of Ignazio Silone" in Partisan Review, 1984. A biographical sketch and discussion of Silone's work is in Donald W. Heiney, America in Modern Italian Literature (1965). His career is also analyzed in Nathan Alexander Scott, Rehearsals of Discomposure: Alienation and Reconciliation in Modern Literature (1952), and Richard W.B. Lewis, The Picaresque Saint: Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction (1959). For general historical background see Sergio Pacifici, A Guide to Contemporary Italian Literature: From Futurism to Neorealism (1962). |