Search

This article examines a selection of references to the figure of Lawrence of Arabia in Fenoglio’s work, direct quotations from his writings, his recollections, and personal re-elaborations, thus expanding the list of already familiar allusions. On these premises and through the limited documentary sources available, this study attempts to reconstruct Fenoglio’s approach to T. E. Lawrence’s texts and to demonstrate how the ways in which the war experience is represented in Seven Pillars constitute the basis for the overcoming of autobiographism in Appunti partigiani and the creation of an epic of resistance. Aiming to deliver fully original outcomes, Fenoglio carefully oscillates between affiliation and detachment, as shown by one of the best-known episodes from Partigiano Johnny – the investiture of the hero, when read in connection with Lawrence’s source.

Starting from a possible allusion to Sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Spiders’ Nest) detected in the first pages of Ventitre giorni della città di Alba (The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba), this article focuses on the friendship between Beppe Fenoglio and Italo Calvino and their intellectual solidarity in the name of their shared search for an authentic literary representation of the Italian Resistance.

L’intervento ripercorre le vicende redazionali ed editoriali del Partigiano Johnny di Beppe Fenoglio per mostrare il rapporto tra costruzione narrativa ed esito destinale del protagonista e le ragioni che spiegano il contrasto tra chi ha interpretato questo capolavoro della letteratura del Novecento in chiave epico-tragica e chi ne ha invece proposta una interpretazione secondo i moduli formali del romanzo di formazione.

Il saggio analizza la produzione di Beppe Fenoglio e la sua continua ricerca volta alla ricerca del romanzo della resistenza, attraverso il filtro della sua indecisione delle sue rinunce. Si punta l'attenzione sulla prolificità di Fenoglio che scrive, riscrive, cancella, modifica, abbandona e riprende un testo dopo l'altro, cercando un qualcosa che da solo potesse testimoniare ai posteri la verità sulla Resistenza.

‘Il dialetto e la sua assenza nei romanzi di Beppe Fenoglio’ è uno studio basato sul corpus dei romanzi dell’autore piemontese (La paga del sabato, La malora, Primavera di bellezza, Il partigiano Johnny, L’imboscata, Una questione privata) che ha come obiettivo quello di proporre una riflessione sugli elementi regionali rappresentati dall’autore piemontese e sulle reticenze nell’uso del dialetto a cui talvolta il lettore assiste nei romanzi resistenziali. Attraverso l’analisi degli interventi in cui il narratore descrive i suoi personaggi intenti in pratiche verbali di natura regionale, si cerca di illustrare come Fenoglio abbia costituito una narrativa localmente caratterizzata ma linguisticamente lontana dai localismi, nel tentativo di rappresentare la realtà ma allontanandosi da una attitudine mimetica al parlato. Parimenti ai casi di assenza del dialetto, vengono presentati anche quelli di presenza dello stesso, con particolare attenzione a come l’elemento linguistico diventi simbolo dei rapporti tra i personaggi fenogliani. La disamina presentata in questa sede vuole essere un tentativo di approfondire e dirimere alcune problematiche linguistiche presenti e apparentemente non presenti all’interno della produzione artistica dello scrittore langhigiano, partendo dalle suggestioni critiche fornite in primis da studiosi quali Isella, Beccaria e Raimondi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Polish Translations of Selected Fragments of Italian Fiction in the Light of Cultural and Historical Determinants of the Reception of Foreign Literature in the People’s Republic of Poland The article focuses on the role of cultural and historical determinants that influence literary translation. The objects of analysis are selected translations of fragments of contemporary Italian fiction – novels by Natalia Ginzburg (Lessico famigliare) and Giuseppe Dessí (Paese d’ombre), and a short story by Beppe Fenoglio (23 giorni della città di Alba) – which were published in the 1970s in the Literatura na Świecie, a Polish literary magazine devoted to foreign literature. The analysis of the phenomenon of fragmentation of Italian literary prose, which occurred in the selected translations, makes it possible to observe the impact of the target culture of that time on the way in which foreign literature was presented to the target reader.

GIUSEPPE "BEPPE" FENOGLIO (Alba, 1922 – Turín, 1963). Hijo primogénito de una familia de tres hijos, Beppe nació en Alba en las Langhe el 1 de marzo 1922. En 1940 se inscribe en la facultad de Letras de la Universidad de Turín, en la que estuvo hasta 1943, momento en el que fue reclutado por el ejército y mandado primero a Ceva (Cuneo) y después a Pietralata (Roma), donde realizó la instrucción militar. Tras el abandono que siguió al 8 de septiembre de 1943, Fenoglio se une primero en enero de 1944 a las formaciones partisanas. En un primer momento se enrola con los "rojos" de las Brigadas Garibaldi, pero pronto se une a los badogliani en el 1º Gruppo Divisioni Alpine comandado por Enrico Martini "Mauri" y en la 2ª Divisione Langhe comandada por Piero Balbo que operaba en las Langhe, entre Mango, Murazzano y Mombarcaro. En 1949 inicia con su primer cuento, Il trucco, una breve pero fundamental carrera literaria que se afirmará al año siguiente, cuando entre en contacto con el grupo de autores reunidos en torno a la editorial Einaudi, dando a la luz títulos de la altura de Racconti della guerra civile, La paga del sabato, I ventitré giorni della città di Alba o Primavera di belleza. A finales de 1959 se le diagnostica una grave enfermedad respiratoria que se complicará a lo largo de los tres años siguientes y que le causará la muerte en febrero de 1963. De la obra culmen de su carrera, la póstuma Il partigiano Johnny, ofrecemos las páginas iniciales con la estupenda traducción de Pepa Linares, recientemente publicada en castellano por Sajalín Editores.

Copyright of Miedzy Oryginalem a Przekladem is the property of Ksiegarnia Akademicka Sp. zo.o and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This essay considers the Resistance short stories in Beppe Fenoglio's collection I ventitré giorni della città di Alba, published in 1952. Setting these stories within the historical and cultural context of post-war Italy, it investigates their author's commitment to expressing the "truth" of the experience of the Resistance through fiction. It argues that Fenoglio goes further than his neorealist contemporaries in attempting to do so in the manner in which he depicts a civil war rather than a war of liberation, and in his unsparingly harsh description of certain aspects of partisan behaviour. The essay examines the relationship between Fenoglio's life and his fiction, putting the case that we should draw clear distinctions between the two, without detracting from the truth of the latter. In conclusion, it draws comparisons between the early stories and Fenoglio's later novel, Il partigiano Johnny, where the author was able to capture the heroic qualities of the Resistance alongside his depiction of all its contradictory aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay conducts a reappraisal of Beppe Fenoglio's Appunti partigiani, a work which has been unjustly neglected. It discusses the relationship of the Appunti to neorealist memorialistica and to Fenoglio's later fiction such as Il partigiano Johnny, in terms of attitudes to the Resistance, literary technique, and the aesthetic of remaining true to experience without embellishment. The essay demonstrates how Appunti partigiani raises profound moral questions in its depiction of civil war, for example in the story of the execution of a spy, yet without necessarily condemning the Resistance itself. Finally, the essay examines the role of the narrator/protagonist "Beppe" in creating an intimate rapport with the reader, so that we trust him as someone with moral integrity and live through the experience of being a partisan with him. In conclusion, the essay argues that Appunti partigiani offers one of the most revealing accounts of the Resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses epic elements that are traceable in Wu Ming's 54 (2002). It aims to clarify what is meant by modern epic and to tease out the distinction between epic genre and epic mode. As part of this analysis, the article focuses on one component of the epic, the re-use, in a new story, of a hero from a different tale. In the case of 54, the hero is taken from a work by Beppe Fenoglio. The subsequent discussion of the intertextual relations between Wu Ming and Fenoglio emphasizes the importance of Fenoglio as an established literary model for the contemporary writer in terms of both the representation of the past and dialogue with the epic mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]