Fontamara di ignazio silone biography
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FONTAMARA
By Ignazio Silone.
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New York: New American Library,
Comments by Bob Corbett
December
The small village of Fontamara in southern Italy is poorly prepared for the coming of the Fascists in the early s.
The cafoni, as the small holding peasants are called, have lived traditional lives for centuries in which they had very little, worked for the benefit of the town folks and local authorities, but nonetheless had simple rules of how to be in the world, and while very poor, eked out lives of hard work and human satisfaction.
Fontamara di ignazio silone biography
All this begins to be disrupted when the fundamental nature of power and life changes. The cafoni are accustomed to changes in the power structure over dozens of generations, but not changes in the fundamental nature of daily life.
The Fascists bring such changes and the cafoni simply have no idea of what is going on.
This sad and tragic tale of the fictional village tells the story that was repeated throughout southern Italy in the early