Gaudiness of style and sugary sentimentality are foreign to him. As the author himself tells us, he spent the initial twenty years of his life in Fontamara. Silone possesses an intimate knowledge of the Italian peasants. In the course of some 200 pages of the book this name becomes the symbol of agricultural Italy, of all its villages and their poverty and their despair and their rebellion. Fontamara itself is merely a poverty-stricken village in one of the most forsaken corners of Southern Italy. But in it revolutionary passion attains such heights as to result in a genuinely artistic creation. Fontamara is a book of impassioned political propaganda. From its first to its concluding sentence it is aimed against the Fascist regime, its lies, brutalities, and abominations. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Transcription/Mark-up: Einde O’Callaghan.Ĭopyleft: Leon Trotsky Internet Archive (2006. Source: New International, Vol.1 No.5, December 1934, p.159. Leon Trotsky: Fontamara (1934) Leon Trotsky Fontamara (December 1934)
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