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Beppe Fenoglio


Born
in Alba, Italy
March 01, 1922

Died
February 18, 1963

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Genre
Literary Fiction, Short Stories, War


Beppe Fenoglio (born Giuseppe Fenoglio) was an Italian writer. His work was published in a critical edition after his death, but controversy remains about his book Johnny the Partisan, often considered his best work, which was published posthumously and incomplete in 1968.
The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the partisan war; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the epos. His first work was in the neorealist style: La paga del sabato (this was published posthumously too in 1969).
The novel was turned down by Elio Vittorini who advised Fenoglio to carve out stories and then incorporate them into the The twenty-three days of the city of Alba (1952). These stories were a chronicle of the ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 20,087 ratings · 1,316 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors
Una questione privata
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3.79 avg rating — 11,768 ratings — published 1963 — 39 editions
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Il partigiano Johnny
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3.91 avg rating — 2,729 ratings — published 1968 — 21 editions
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La malora
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3.70 avg rating — 1,507 ratings — published 1954 — 19 editions
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I ventitre giorni della cit...
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3.79 avg rating — 1,124 ratings — published 1952 — 18 editions
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La paga del sabato
3.84 avg rating — 1,005 ratings — published 1969 — 20 editions
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Una questione privata - I v...
3.99 avg rating — 629 ratings — published 1963 — 2 editions
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Primavera di bellezza
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3.84 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 1959 — 11 editions
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Un giorno di fuoco
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4.02 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1963 — 10 editions
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Tutti i racconti
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Appunti partigiani 1944-1945
4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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“Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quella verità, tra quella verità e l'intelligenza del creato avrebbe optato per la prima.”
― Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
tags: italian, italiano, partisan, verità
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“Basta. Non mi parlare più. Mi fai piangere. Le tue bellissime parole servono solo, riescono solo a farmi piangere. Sei cattivo. Mi parli così, questi argomenti li cerchi e li sviluppi solo per vedermi piangere. No, non sei cattivo. Ma sei triste. Peggio che triste, sei tetro. Almeno piangessi anche tu. Sei triste e brutto. E io non voglio diventare triste, come te. Io sono bella e allegra. Lo ero.”
― Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
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“In che stato sono. Sono fatto di fango, dentro e fuori. Mia madre non mi riconoscerebbe. Fulvia, non dovevi farmi questo. Specie pensando a ciò che mi stava davanti. Ma tu non potevi sapere che cosa stava davanti a me, ed anche a lui e a tutti i ragazzi. Tu non devi saper niente, solo che io ti amo. Io invece debbo sapere, solo se io ho la tua anima. Ti sto pensando, anche ora, anche in queste condizioni sto pensando a te. Lo sai che se cesso di pensarti, tu muori, istantaneamente? Ma non temere, io non cesserò mai di pensarti.”
― Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata
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