"Red Carnation"

...From 1929, he worked as an editor for the anti-fascist literary magazine Solaria, publishing a series of short stories there (published in 1931 under the general title Petit Bourgeoisie). In 1933, he began serializing his full-length novel The Red Carnation (complete edition, 1948) in the same magazine. However, at a time when fascism was at its height and the masses were intoxicated with its illusions, this novel, which quickly saw through the essence of fascism and sharply depicted its true face, was persistently obstructed by the authorities. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Vittorini was deeply shocked and gave up writing Erica and Her Brothers (published unfinished in 1956), a novel about the fascist invasion of Ethiopia, and began to support the Republican Party. ...

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…29年から反ファシズム系文芸誌《ソラーリア》の編集に携わり，同誌に短編小説群を発表(1931年に《プチ･ブルジョアジー》の総合タイトルで刊行)。さらに33年からは同誌上に長編小説《赤いカーネーション》(完全版1948)の連載を始めるが，ファシズムの勢力が絶頂を極め大衆がその幻想に酔いしれていた時期に，いち早くファシズムの本質を見抜いてその真の相貌を鋭く描き出したこの小説は，当局の執拗な妨害にあう。36年にスペイン内戦が勃発すると，激しい衝撃を受けたビットリーニは，ファシズムのエチオピア侵略をテーマとした小説《エリカとその兄弟》(未完のまま1956年刊)の執筆を断念し，共和国派支持の活動を展開。…

※「《赤いカーネーション》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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