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Italian Novels of Peasant Crisis, 1930-1950
This book brings together the insights of historians and critics to examine the account given in a range of novels of the effect on peasant society of Fascist ruralist policies and the post-Second World War struggles for land reform. The authors whose works are discussed include Ignazio Silone, Carlo Levi, Francesco Jovine and Cesare Pavese. Pavese turns rural Piedmont into a paradigm of the nation to reveal the tensions of post-war Italy, while Silone, Levi and Jovine not merely challenge traditional stereotypes of the south but challenge the north's conventional assumptions of superiority by offering peasant society as the source of alternative values. The themes of community and ownership of the land run though the novels discussed.
Twentieth-century Literary Criticism
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.
Francesco Jovine
The dramatic political events occurring in Italy from the rise of Fascism to the emergence of the new Republic after World War II often had the effect of overshadowing the critical role literature played in the struggle to represent and reform the reality of the times. One of the leading voices of this period was the novelist Francesco Jovine, an important representative of the movement known as neo-realism. Jovine's literary career and work well demonstrate the peculiar difficulties an Italian writer was bound to face during those trying years. In fact, Jovine's work is indicative of the crisis affecting a whole generation, as both artistic and ideological factors are vigorously interrelated in his works. By experimenting with various literary modes, and by employing a Gramscian critique of ideology, Jovine managed to respond to the tymely debate concerning the social practice of literature as well as to fulfill his own quest to reinvest literature with the mimetic power to mirror and mediate the reality it portrays.
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