ABSTRACT
Silone, Levi and Pratolini are names especially cited for their antifascist stance in political activity and literary attitude. Three of their main narratives represent experience of contact with the inequality worsened during the regime, besides portraying nefarious aspects of the authoritarian behaviour of the Fascist State representatives. Published before and after the World War II, with plots covering a period that spans the 1920's to the 1930's, Fontamara (1933), Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1945), and Cronache di poveri amanti (1947) compose rural and urban pictures committed to the forgotten population of the Southern region of the country, and to the people scared amid the full irruption of terror. There is an intellectual task of revolving the past to explain the present, of establishing a position, of defending the truth, and offering an aesthetical solution for its expression. The films based on the novels, to which we dedicate a brief discussion, gave continuity to the proposal, and succeeded in putting in doubt the visions about the years that followed Fascism.
Keywords:
Antifascism; memoir; Ignazio Silone; Carlo Levi; Vasco Pratolini.