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Author:
Fenoglio, Beppe, 1922-1963, author.
Title:
A private affair / Beppe Fenoglio ; translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.
Publisher:
The New York Review of Books,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
xiii, 153 pages ; 21 cm.
Subject:
1943-1947
College students--Italy--Fiction.
College students.
Militia.
Italy--History--Allied occupation, 1943-1947--Fiction.
Italy--Militia--Fiction.
Italy.
Fiction.
History.
Novels.
Novels.
Other Authors:
Curtis, Howard, 1949- translator.
Other Titles:
Questione privata. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Summary:
"Beppe Fenoglio's A Private Affair is one of the great books of the Second World War and a masterpiece of modern Italian literature. Milton is the nom de guerre of the book's protagonist, a one-time student of English literature who, in the chaotic last years of the war, has joined a partisan band. Before the war, gangly Milton was in love with the beautiful Fulvia-Fulvia let him read poetry to her-and now he hears that a friend and fellow-partisan, handsome Giorgio, was sleeping with her at the time. Jealous and furious, Milton hastens to confront Giorgio, only to discover that he has been captured by the Germans. A Private Affair tells the store with Milton's mad quest-pursued through mud and fog and rain and terror, while barely evading German and Fascist patrols-to rescue his friend and settle a personal grudge from a lost world of peace. Italo Calvino praised the book for the "geometric tension" between its themes of love and war and for its unsettling and utterly persuasive mingling of absurdity and mystery. The British novelist Paul Bailey has called the novel's closing pages "superb and superbly exciting." A Private Affair is a peerless story of the violent heart and world"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
New York Review Books classics
ISBN:
1681376741
9781681376745
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1309028591
LCCN:
2022015953
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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