An anti-extremism novel from 1937, and then revised and expanded in 1960 or so by the Italian writer Ignazio Silone. I came across this novel from the Collected Letters of Ralph Ellison as Ellison apparently met Silone in both of their capacities as literary attaches. So the book, like I said, is anti-extremist, and mostly that means anti-Fascist, which it definitely is, but it’s also not a ringing endorsement of Stalinism/Communism as the results of that Ideology would mean about the same thing to the […]