The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone

The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone raises complex theoretical issues about authorship and audiences and about the relationship between text and context.

Elizabeth Leake is an associate professor in the Department of Italian at Rutgers University.

'Leake's book is a subtle, thorough and accessible exploration of a delicate and much-contested subject. It is the first scholarly book to raise - with a rare mixture of realism, compassion, and sophistication - the many historical, literary, and theoretical issues obscured by the scandalous appeal of the "caso Silone."'

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Department of Italian Studies, New York University:

'Leake's book is a subtle, thorough and accessible exploration of a delicate and much-contested subject. It is the first scholarly book to raise - with a rare mixture of realism, compassion, and sophistication - the many historical, literary, and theoretical issues obscured by the scandalous appeal of the "caso Silone."'