by Beppe Fenoglio · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806174668
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Il partigiano Johnny is recognized as the most original and anti-rhetorical Italian novel about the Resistance. The story follows Johnny, a young student raised on English literature, who decides to fight with the partisans in the hills after September 8th. Fenoglio manages to give Johnny's adventures and passions a deep existential dimension, creating a linguistic invention that expands the space and time of the action beyond their real measures.
Giuseppe "Beppe" Fenoglio was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English. The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe, where he was born and raised, and the Italian resistance movement, both largely inspired by his own personal experiences in them; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the epos.
