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Edizione critica diretta da Maria Corti

3823 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1978

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Beppe Fenoglio

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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 Italian Partisans or of rural life. One of such works was La malora (1954), a long story in the style of Giovanni Verga.

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August 21, 2013
Un prezioso cofanetto che raccoglie in 5 volumi tutto quel che Fenoglio ha scritto: i romanzi ed i racconti ma anche teatro, favole, epigrammi, frammenti. Mancano solo i racconti che sono poi confluiti in "Appunti partigiani" e che furono fortunosamente ritrovati solo vari anni dopo. Mi appassiona soprattutto il primo volume, che contiene "Ur partigiano Johnny", la prima elaborazione dell'ampio e fluido materiale del romanzo. Fenoglio lo ha scritto in inglese (qui con testo a fronte) e, rispetto alle versioni successive, sono qui molto più presenti gli elementi autobiografici. Però emergono già quella scrittura originale e potente e quella elaborazione dei personaggi che fanno de Il Partigiano Johnny vera letteratura e non semplice cronaca partigiana. Amo questo libro anche per ragioni personali, perché ho avuto la fortuna di conoscere personalmente molti dei personaggi di cui si parla.
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