Prisoners of Hope - The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924–1974

The eminent cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani--six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin--and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.

List of contents

1. The Most Ancient of Minorities 2. Exercises in Futility: Trieste and Rome The Redeemed and the Eternal City Italo Svevo's "Discomfort": Premature Aging and Belated Fame Alberto Moravia's World-Weary Adolescents 3. Two Captives Called Levi Fascism and Italian Jewry The Physician. Painter Don Carlo: Exile and Wonder-Worker The Chemist Primo: "Poet" of the Concentration Camp "Prisoners of Hope" 4. The Moment of Recollection: Turin The Testimony of Four Memoirists Natalia Ginzburg: The Painful Apprenticeship Natalia Ginzburg: The Arrival and the Departure of the Jews 5. The Moment of Recollection: Ferrara The Incomparable Walled City Giorgio Bassani: To the Paradise Garden Giorgio Bassani: The Splendor of Death The Cycle Closed 6. The Meanings of "Survival" Notes Index

About the author

H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999) was Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

An eminent cultural historian examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani—six Italian writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin—and gracefully shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage with recent experiences of antisemitic persecution.

Product details

• Authors: H. Stuart Hughes, Henry Stuart Hughes, Hughes Henry Stuart
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1996
• EAN: 9780674707283
• ISBN: 978-0-674-70728-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Italy, General & world history, Jewish Studies, Italian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Ancient (Classical) Greek, Political oppression & persecution, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)