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Bread and Wine
One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy.
Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.
Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
June 7th 2005
by Signet Classics
(first published January 1st 1381)
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Though I don't believe in revolution any more! but I like Murica saying; Revolution is not a try for removing lonliness, but a try to stay together and not fear."
رمان "نان و شراب" اولین اثر سیلونه است که به فارسی برگردانده شده. ترجمه ی این کتاب توسط محمد قاضی صورت گرفته و انتشارات امیرکبیر در سال 1345 آن را چاپ و منتشر کرده است. از سه گانه ی مشهور سیلونه، دو کتاب دیگر؛ "فونتامارا" و "دانه ی زیر برف" نیز به فارسی ترجمه و منتشر شده است. از "ایناتسیو سی...more
رمان "نان و شراب" اولین اثر سیلونه است که به فارسی برگردانده شده. ترجمه ی این کتاب توسط محمد قاضی صورت گرفته و انتشارات امیرکبیر در سال 1345 آن را چاپ و منتشر کرده است. از سه گانه ی مشهور سیلونه، دو کتاب دیگر؛ "فونتامارا" و "دانه ی زیر برف" نیز به فارسی ترجمه و منتشر شده است. از "ایناتسیو سی...more
Ignazio Silone, a founding member of the Italian Communist Party and a virulent anti-fascist, was living in exile in Switzerland in the mid-1930's. Mussolini was at the height of his powers and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia was very strongly supported by a majority of his countrymen. If this wasn't discouraging enough for a man like Silone, he had also lost faith in the Communist Party as a viable alternative to fascism. Josef Stalin had begun purging the Party of his personal enemies, acting...more
I an going on a limb here but this book is very good. Written in 1936 by an anti fascist writer who also had the good sense to break with Stalin in the early 30's. He has been compared to the Italian Orwell. It gets more complicated. It has been recently revealed that he also was a police informer for the fascists, providing information leading to the arrest of many left wing opponents of the regime.
Thsi background in mind makes the book very interesting. It is a story of a lefti...more
Thsi background in mind makes the book very interesting. It is a story of a lefti...more
This is a book I picked out at random one day when I was buying books for school at the beginning of freshman year. It was like winning the lottery. Bread and Wine is the story of a man trying to reconcile his idealism with the inhumanity of the world. The man, who is torn between the ghosts of the Christian faith of his boyhood and the atheistic Communist faith of his adulthood, becomes a anti-fascist partisan in Mussolini's Italy. While trying to evade the fascist authorities, the communis...more
به واسطه خوندن کتاب خاطرات یک مترجم مرحوم محمد قاضی به سمت این کتاب کشیده شدم. کتاب زیبایی بود. یادمه تو دوره ای این کتاب رو میخوندم که امتحانای ترمم بود و من تو خوابگاه دانشگاه شیراز. با خودم قرار گذاشته بودم که 45 دقیقه درس بخونم و 15 دقیقه نان و شراب. اونقدر مست این کتاب شده بودم که 45 دقیقه ی درسی رو چنان با هول ولا میخوندم که هیچی از درسا نمیفهمیدم. یادش بخیر . همین کتاب بود که باعث شد کتاب دانه زیر برفش رو هم بخونم که واقعا کتاب ضعیفی بود از نظر من. کاش سیلونه هیچ وقت واسه این کتاب دنباله ...more
ku rubah dari 3 bintang menjadi 5 bintang. meski awalnya sempat mikir ini novel ideologis banget, propaganda, dan agak kejam dengan tafsir bebas pembaca. tapi, setelah dibaca ulang, ini buku pantas dapat 5 bintang. penggambaran watak tokoh-tokoh nya bagus, manusiawi, tidak mengada-ada. menggarapnya pun, si Silone ini, super serius. aku bahkan sampai bisa mem"benci" satu tokoh yang ada di situ, Cristina. satu hal yang belum pernah terjadi ketika membaca novel, hehehe... duh, gemes bange...more
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نان و شراب، ماجرای روشنفکرانی است که، می خواهند راه به جایی ببرند، نیز روشنفکران سرخورده، روشنفکران مایوس و روشنفکران سازشکار. کشمکش های درونی انسان هایی که، در جستجوی جهانی بهتر و انسانی تر هستند. یک نجار، یا یک کشاورز، در رژیم استبدادی، شاید خود را با وضع موجود تطبیق دهد، و به کار خویش بپردازد. اما، برای یک روشنفکر مفری نیست، وی، یا باید تسلیم شود و زیر بیرق حاکم درآید، یا، تن به گرسنگی و رسوایی دهد، و در نخستین فرصت مساعد، کشته شود
Italy in the 1930's. Peasantry are submissive to the government. Pietro is a communist revolutionary who is being hunted down by the Italian authorities. He poses as a priest to elude them. While he is hiding, he gets to know the villagers and is dissappointed in them for not standing up to the government. All of his revolutionary friends are tired, dejected and fear of going back to prison. These villagers are poor and don't care that their government is corrupt. To them it is the facts of life...more
A story about a noble idealistic communist Pietro Spina hiding himself from the Facist as a priest (Don Paolo) in a peasant town in Italy. Spina's hope is to restore the socialist revolution while in hiding, but learns the importance of other more simpler ways of life by understanding of the simple ways of the peasant folk who not at all concerned with "idealogical" revolutions but only with waking up early and finishing a long hard day in the fields then returning home to go to bed, o...more
"In the new group I met a girl, a dressmaker. Immediately we fell in love. When I was with her, I felt the first regrets. With her I began to realize the possibility of a pure and honest way of living, completely unknown to me before. [...:] We were very much in love. She didn't represent a certain way of thinking to me. On the contrary, she said very little but listened to the others. She represented a way of living, of existing, of giving oneself in an unequaled humane manner. I couldn't ...more
I wouldn't say that the plot is outstanding, but the setting, the characters, the concept are sound. A semi-communist revolutionary returns to his fascist homeland, Italy during the announcement of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia. The intriguing aspect is the contrast of beliefs examined in the novel: Pietro is communist/agnostic/former catholic disguised as a priest, living in a Catholic/mystic town, in the middle of the fascist movement and a swelling sense of social-economic divide and the ensui...more
در این رمان، که سهم حسب حال سیلونه در آن بسیار زیاد است، او از انقلابی دلزدهای سخن میگوید که احساس میکرد در وجودش سربرمیآورد. در واقع، در گفتگوهای این کتاب بعضی از دلایل تصمیم نویسنده به ترک حزب کمونیست در 1930 دیده میشود. رمانی است به معنای آنچه استاندال (2) رمان میپنداشت؛ یعنی آینهای که انسان را در طول راهی به گردش درمیآورد. سیلونه بازگشت غیرقانونی پیترواسپینا (3)ی مهاجر را به ایتالیا ترسیم میکند که برای بهتر مخفی کردن خود به لباس کشیشی درآمده و نام دون پائولو (4) را برای خود برگزیده...more
آزادی چیزی نیست که آن را به کسی هدیه کنند. میتوان در یک کشور دیکتاتوری زندگی کرد و آزاد بود. فقط کافیست تا علیه دیکتاتور مبارزه کرد. مردی که با مغز خودش فکر میکند آزاد است. مردی که بخاطر آنچه که بر حق میداند مبارزه میکند آزاد است. برعکس میتوان در آزادترین کشورها زندگی کرد و با این وصف اگر آدم باطنا منفیباف و پست و بندهی منش باشد آزاد نیست و با وجود فقدان هرگونه اجبار و زور باز هم برده است...
An early example of Italian neorealism, this novel tells the story of a Communist organizer who went into exile when the Fascists took over Italy. He returns and roams the impoverished farming communities of Southern Italy while disguised as a priest, looking for recruits to help him revive the anti-Fascist resistance movement. At the same time, he becomes disillusioned with the Stalinist direction of the Communist Party and tries to develop an alternative radical politics that is strongly influ...more
Setting is in Italy during Mussolini's fascist rule prior to WWII.
Ignazio writes how Revolutions in their fight for freedom often end up becoming equally tyrannical as the regimes they replace.
One of my favorite quotes is from this book:
"How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience." --Ignazio Silone from in his book "Bread and Wine"
Ignazio writes how Revolutions in their fight for freedom often end up becoming equally tyrannical as the regimes they replace.
One of my favorite quotes is from this book:
"How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience." --Ignazio Silone from in his book "Bread and Wine"
there were a lot of things that troubled me about this book: a unreliable discourse, lack of steady point of view, confusion abouts who was the main character for the first 50 pages, and a lack of a clear narrative objective. all these factors made it a bit of a difficult read.
but-- silone's work was some of the most popular of its time, and in subject matter alone it's an admirable text. i read this hoping to spark the revolutionary inside me, but what was really outstanding, howe...more
but-- silone's work was some of the most popular of its time, and in subject matter alone it's an admirable text. i read this hoping to spark the revolutionary inside me, but what was really outstanding, howe...more
I read this one in 1994 or so, prompted by Silone's associations with postwar French thinkers and the usual rot which attracts pseuds in their early twenties. I recall the crowd scene rather vividly as well as the author's afterward where he recalls encountering soemone reading his book while travelling on a train.
Ignazio Silone, despite of his years in exile in France and Switzerland, due too the fascist dictatorship in Italy, was able to capture the esence of those days. Bread and Wine is a criticism of any form of totalitarism. Full of tension and surprises. Not even the mountains are a good refuge. Bravo Ignazio.
I first read this book in my freshman seminar in college, "The Search for Meaning." From the very first time I read it, the story affected me deeply. The story is of a man who, as a result of his Marxist activities, has been exiled from Italy. However, he cannot live away from his homeland and returns disguised as a priest to a small town in the mountains. It is here that he comes to recognize that the movement to which he had dedicated himself in his earlier life had become the ve...more
I had seen this book on a list of classics--now I know why!
What is life all about? Is there a God? What can you do when your
country is fired up to go to war and you oppose it? Although set in the 1930's, it still relevant today.
What is life all about? Is there a God? What can you do when your
country is fired up to go to war and you oppose it? Although set in the 1930's, it still relevant today.
رمان نان وشراب سرگذشت یک کمونیست ایتالیایی در زمان مسیو لنی وجنگ جهانی دوم میباشد شخصیت اصلی این رمان از طرفی با درون خود در حال مبارزه است واز طرفی می خواهد اقداماتی علیه جنگ انجام دهد . وحکومت دیکتاتور موسیو لنی هم به شدت محیط ایتالیا را خفقان آور کرده اند.
"دولت تبلیغات مردم را با مجبور می کند که با شور و اشتیاق در تظاهرات شرکت کنند"
"حکومتی که بر پایه وحدت کلمه استوار باشد تاب شنیدن نه را ندارد"
"دولت تبلیغات مردم را با مجبور می کند که با شور و اشتیاق در تظاهرات شرکت کنند"
"حکومتی که بر پایه وحدت کلمه استوار باشد تاب شنیدن نه را ندارد"
فضای غم انگیز و تیره ای دارد.حس خاصی به آدم میده.البته به نظر من از رمانهایی است که تاریخ مصرف دارد و البته تاریخش گذشته
شیوه نگارش و با الطبع شیوه ترجمه کتاب قدیمی و از مد افتاده بودند به قدمت داستانی که نقل شد. اما همیشه کهنگی دلیلی برای از کار افتادگی یابی فایده بودن و بدی نیست. داستانی که نقل شد داستان همه روزهای انسان است از روزگاری که دانست حیوانیست اجتماعی. فارغ از جنبه های شعاری داستان که آن را بی شباهت به جزوه های حزبی نمی کرد آن جدال و به محاکمه کشاندن انسانیت را دوست می داشتم در این کتاب. .
Pastoral in the literal and spiritual sense. This book ministers to the reader and guides one along to a firmer conclusion of his/her core principles yet arcs toward compassion...I such a sense of foreboding that I had to step away from this at times because so much was going on in my real life and I was so involved with Pietro Spina/Pablo Spada that I became uncomfortably close to being overwhelmed. This is how compellingly well told, well translated I found this.
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This was assigned reading in a causes of world war two class - don't know what I would think if I read it in another context. I recommend it -European fiction.
Transformation of a political radical of a resistance operative to a free-thinking saint in 1938 Italy and the change that produces in the people around him.
An excellent read. It has aged well. Mainly because of the small village, rural aspects of life under an oppressive regime, never explicitly named.
I'm not sure why it's a classic. I have a friend who loves it and I read it on his recommendation. I thought it was pretty weak.
a good look at peasant life in Italy just before and at the beginning of WWII. Clearly full of symbolism, but I couldn't figure it out on my own. I dog-eared every page that said "bread and wine" and I am determined to come back to this when I have found someone/thing/book etc. who can further me in understanding it. Probably the most political book that I have ever enjoyed.
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Figlio di una tessitrice e di un piccolo proprietario terriero, perde assai presto il padre e la madre, nel terremoto che nel gennaio del ‘15 distrugge gran parte della Marsica. Interrotti gli studi liceali, si dà alla politica quale socialista attivo e prende parte alle lotte contro la guerra e al movimento operaio rivoluzionario; nel 1921 ...more
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Figlio di una tessitrice e di un piccolo proprietario terriero, perde assai presto il padre e la madre, nel terremoto che nel gennaio del ‘15 distrugge gran parte della Marsica. Interrotti gli studi liceali, si dà alla politica quale socialista attivo e prende parte alle lotte contro la guerra e al movimento operaio rivoluzionario; nel 1921 ...more
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