Open city
Subtitle: seven writers in postwar Rome
By: Ignazio Silone ... [et al.] ; edited with an introduction by William Weaver, with the editorial assistance of Kristina Olson.
Contributors: Silone, Ignazio, 1900-1978.; Weaver, William, 1923-; Olson, Kristina.
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: South Royalton, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Italian fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English; World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Description: "A magic decade of Italian writing followed the fall of Mussolini's Fascists and the liberation of Rome in 1944. Ignazio Silone, author of one of the great novels of the 1930s, Bread and Wine, returned from exile. Alberto Moravia, who helped define the modern conscience with his novel, The Time of Indifference, left the mountains outside Rome where he had been hiding from the Germans.

Rome filled with veterans of the partisan war, of the underground, of the anonymity and silence of the Italian police state. The suffering of the war, the bold hopes which blossomed after Fascism's overthrow, were described in a torrent of films, stories and novels, bringing a kind of climax to one of the great national literatures of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

"American William Weaver also arrived in Rome in the late 1940s. Open City is an anthology of the writers Weaver admired most, and they all come to life in the pages of his long introductory memoir."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published in Italian.
The nameless one, from House of liars / Elsa Morante -- from Bread and wine / Ignazio Silone -- Valentino / Natalia Ginzburg -- Agostino / Alberto Moravia  -- from That awful mess on via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- from The garden of the Finzi-Continis / Giorgio Bassani -- from The watch / Carlo Levi.