Agnes is going to die
Agnes goes to death (in the original: L'Agnese va a morire ) is a neorealist novel by the writer Renata Viganò and first published in Italian in 1949. The author was a staffetta in the Italian resistance and had already started writing the novel in 1945. The work is still one of the most important resistance literature in Italy and has been translated into 14 languages.
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The story takes place during the Second World War in the northern Italian Emilia-Romagna , eight months before Italy was liberated from fascism . Viganò tells the story of the partisan Agnes, a farmer and laundress who joins the Resistancea after her husband was deported . At first she takes on tasks as a staffetta, delivers weapons or food and brings messages. After killing a German fascist, she lives underground, takes care of her brigade and takes on increasingly more responsible tasks. After returning near her village, she is finally recognized and shot.
expenditure
- L'Agnese above all. 1949. Many more editions. Most recently Einaudi, Turin 2010. In German:
- Agnes is going to die . Berlin (GDR), Verlag Volk und Welt 1951. First German edition. Translated from the Italian by Ina Jun-Broda . Further edition:
- Agnese goes to death. Translation Ina Jun-Broda, revised and afterword Ulrike Schimming. edition five, Hamburg u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-942374-46-0 .
Movie
The work was filmed in 1976 by director Giuliano Montaldo .
Award
- 1949: Premio Viareggio (second prize, together with Banchetto by Libero de Libero)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franzesca Bravi, book review. Website of the series Horizonte Neue Serie. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
Remarks
- ↑ In the revision of the first translation, Ulrike Schimming tried to preserve linguistic peculiarities from the novel, such as names (Agnese instead of Agnes), words in dialect or independent terms such as resistenza or staffette. See also this specialist review .