Tridumo = laux la katolika religio: dum 3 tagoj ripetata pregxeja ceremonio

Traturo = altaj vojoj en Apuglia kaj Abruzzo, kie oni pasxtas brutojn Salamo = kolbaso, pretigita per azena kaj bova viandoj kun ajlo Radio = la tekniko, kiu sin okupas per senfadena dissendo de sonoj pere de elektraj ondoj Pampo = stepo en Sud-Ameriko, precipe en Argentino Noveno = laux la katolika religio: dum 9 tagoj ripetata pregxado en pregxejo Koloseo = grandega, famkonata amfiteatro en Romo Klientelo = kunigo de laboristoj, dependaj de labordonantoj Karmelito = monahxa ordenano, nomita laux la monto ,Karmelo'' en Nord-Palestino Cxi sube ni mencias ilin kun klarigoj:įatamorgano = atmosfera trompbildo pro rompo de lumradioj Por eviti maloportunajn tradukojn, ni preferis apliki kelkajn neologismojn. The vocabulary section is exhaustive, making the text suitable for those just coming to grips with thelanguage. This edition includes an introduction and notes which help to set the novel in its historical and political context, both in Italy and the rest of Europe in the decade before the Second World War. The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital messagein a fraught time. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. The story itself is a good read, toldwith humour and suspense. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life.He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church'' He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century.

Fontamara by Ignazio Silone