SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF AN EPISODE IN THE WAR WHEN PARTISANS LIBERATED A MOUNTAINOUS ZONE IN NORTHERN ITALY

Johnny the Partisan

Literature & Fiction

Beppe Fenoglio

Contemporary

Quartet Books

Posthumously published in Italy in 1963, and now translated into English for the very first time, Beppe Fenoglio's World War II novel A Private Affair is regarded as one of the greatest works of 20th-century Italian literature. After the fateful day of September 8,1943when Italy surrendered to the Allies and was occupied by the WehrmachtMilton, a university student, joins the anti-German partisan militia in the mountainous areas of the Piedmont. It is a hard life of watches, patrols, ambushes, and close escapes, but Milton seems to live in a kind of daze, heedless of the danger of being captured by Fascist bands, and immersed in his own world of thoughts and memories. History and life are fused together through a masterful use of flashback, while Milton’s romantic, obsessive, and desperate quest for love and truth carries a wealth of connotations that still reverberate to this day. Beppe Fenoglio (19221963) is best known for his autobiographical work, Johnny the Partisan.

A Private Affair (Hesperus Modern Voices)

Literary

Hesperus Press

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Il Partigiano Johnny

Einaudi

Diciotto Racconti

La Malora

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La Malora (Italian Edition)

Il partigiano Johnny (Italian Edition)

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