The first half of the XX century can be examined through political, historical and cultural events that influenced the whole generation of writers, artists and intellectuals. In this complex fabric are intertwined the binomials history and literature and literature and politics, in which can be inserted the trajectory of Ignazio Silone. His intellectual production reflects his insertion in the world and the experience of the experienced in life, which also bear the mark of totalitarian regimes, fascism, antifascism and by exile: marks of an existence that permeate and nourish Silone's literary speech.
Italian Literature; Ignazio Silone; literature and politics; writer-intellectual; role of the intellectual