Talk:Ignazio Silone

Fontamara
New article started on this novel by Silone - QV.--MacRusgail (talk) 14:18, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

"The fascists of the future" quote
Some attribute the "The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists" quote to him (the quote that is mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill, see for example Talk:Winston Churchill#The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists entry on Wikiquote), but I can't find any sources.

The closest to this quote though is a quote by Italian screenwriter, novelist, journalist and drama critic Ennio Flaiano: "In Italy there are two types of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists" (this one confirmed, see Ennio Flaiano on it.wikipedia.org), in Italian language:

In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie: i fascisti e gli antifascisti.

--Wayfarer (talk) 01:02, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

No. The citation is in Francois Bondy, Pfade der Neugier, 1988. page 84. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1205:5045:1BC0:5D8D:5BBC:AE2A:27D8 (talk) 10:33, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

"Controversy" is controversial
Christopher Hitchens wrote in The Nation, 5 October 2000: "Debating with Alexander Cockburn on the collusion of Ignazio Silone with Mussolini’s secret police ("Minority Report," June 12), I made the assumption, for the sake of argument, that the published reports of Silone’s collaboration were true. They just didn’t bear the construction that Cockburn put upon them. It now appears that we may both have been party, with differing degrees of relish and reluctance, to a widely and prematurely disseminated falsehood. The original book by Dario Biocca and Mauro Canali, L’Informatore: Silone, I Comunisti e la Polizia, has been witheringly attacked by the historian Mimmo Franzinelli, who is considered an expert on OVRA, the Fascist police. He accuses Biocca and Canali of misunderstanding the documentation, of simplifying and even mistranscribing the evidence, and of wrongly excluding the possibility that Silone did whatever he did under Communist Party instructions. Subsequent articles and essays in La Stampa and in Corriere della Sera, and interviews with Norberto Bobbio, among others, have begun to make a strong case that the whole charge against Silone is founded either on bad faith or on good faith mixed with mediocre scholarship.

"I cannot myself be confident, and I lack the necessary linguistic and historical expertise, but I now feel fairly sure that the first draft in this argument was allowed too much authority. In the circumstances, I feel that I should alert Nation readers to a possibly grave injustice and direct those who are literate in Italian to the June 2000 issue of L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, in which Franzinelli’s rebuttal appears." Wegesrand (talk) 15:59, 16 November 2021 (UTC)