While Calvino ultimately judges his own work as a failed attempt to capture the spirit of the Italian partisan movement, he praises Beppe Fenoglio's Una questione privata as the long-awaited masterpiece of the Italian Resistance: E fu il piu solitario di tutti che riusci a fare il romanzo che tutti avevamo sognato, quando nessuno piu se Taspettava, Beppe Fenoglio, e arrivo a scriverlo e nemmeno a finirlo (Una questione privata)-, e mori prima di vederlo pubblicato, nel pieno dei quarant'anni. Calvino begins the task by describing the electric potential of post-war Italy, in which "scrivere 'il romanzo della Resistenza' era ancora un problema aperto, scrivere 'il romanzo della Resistenza' si poneva come un imperativo" (12). In 1964, Einaudi proposed that Italo Calvino write a preface for the new edition of his first novel Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, a partisan narrative inspired by Calvino's experiences as a resistance fighter during World War II. Keywords: Nostalgia, Fenoglio, paradise lost, partisan literature, Italian Resistance, 20th century. Relying on his nostalgia as a compass, Milton reorients himself towards home as a means of rediscovering and maintaining his humanity. ![]() ![]() Though his quest has often been construed as nothing more than a boyish escape from his obligations, this study reinterprets Milton's nostalgia as a more radical form of resistance: Milton's choice to dwell in paradise lost is a refusal to participate in the dehumanizing machinery of war. ![]() Indeed, from the moment the protagonist Milton sets foot in his beloved Fulvia's villa, he withdraws from his responsibilities as a partisan fighter in the Italian Resistance in order to discover the truth about her alleged betrayal. Abstract: When Beppe Fenoglio's partisan novel Una questione privata was first published in 1963, critics immediately took issue with its foregrounding of romance over Resistance Literature's more established form of chronological testimony.
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