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Antifascist Exile
antifascist intellectual history
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Author_Deborah Holmes
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comparative exile research
cultural transfer studies
Der Versuch
Dictator Figure
Die Zeit
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exile literature
Exile Research
Exile Works
Exile Writing
Geistige Landesverteidigung
German A(C)migrA(C) networks
German Exiles
Ignazio Silone
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Italian antifascist writers in Switzerland
Italian Exile
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Mussolini's Role
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Swiss Cultural
Swiss Intellectuals
Swiss People
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Swiss socialist movement
Swiss Writers
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Vice Versa
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754635222
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, and following a flexible chronological structure, the book examines the developing role Silone played in the intellectual life of Zurich. Its analysis of Silone's links with 'Bauhaus' circles, disciples of C.J. Jung, and Zurich's socialist city council offers an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on Silone's exile that both questions and celebrates his status as an 'un-Italian' Italian author. Holmes also considers wider topics such as the functions of the engagé writer in times of crisis, the dynamics of cultural transfer through translation, and the phenomenon of exile literature. Italian antifascist exile writing is an area of Italian literature that has never been explored as an entity. With its painstaking archival research and critical approach to the pioneering methods and results of German 'Exilforschung,' Ignazio Silone in Exile opens the way for further studies on this little known aspect of Italian emigration culture.
Deborah Holmes works at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna, Austria.
