Open City: Seven Writers in Post-War Rome

by Giorgio Bassani, Natalia Ginzburg, Carlo Emilio Gadda, et al.

Book Overview

A MAGIC DECADE OF Italian writing followed the fall of Benito Mussolini's Fascist government and the liberation of Rome in 1944. Ignazio Silone, author of one of the great novels of the 1930s,Bread and Wine, returned from exile. Alberto Moravia, who helped define the modern conscience with his novelThe Time of Indifference, left the mountains outside Rome, where he had been hiding from the Germans. Rome filled with veterans of the partisan war, of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883642825
• ISBN13: 9781883642822
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Zoland Books
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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Speedy

I received the book, just when I needed it. It was the first of my books to arrive.

A Lost City Revisited

In the introduction to this touching collection of several influential writers, William Weaver illustrates with photographic precision the personalities and circumstances that defined the Rome of the postwar epoch. For anyone interested in contemporary Italian writing, Mr. Weaver's profound insight and vast personal knowledge of both Rome and its writers will be an enlightening experience. No other book offers the reader such a fascinating invitation into the lives and stories that were the lost, open city of postwar Rome.