Don Camillo and Peppone (book)
Don Camillo and Peppone (original title: Mondo Piccolo "Don Camillo" or Don Camillo for short ) is the most famous collection of short stories (or episodic novels ) by the Italian journalist and writer Giovannino Guareschi . The book was first published in 1948 by Rizzoli Verlag .
Don Camillo and Peppone is the first book in a series (Mondo Piccolo, Little World), which takes place in a not clearly defined small place in the Po Valley (the Bassa ) and is about amusing but realistic episodes that the pastor Don Camillo and himself with His rival friend, the communist village mayor and mechanic Peppone, experienced in the Italian post-war period .
The work was a great success and republished dozens of times. In 1952 a first theatrical version was shot, entitled Don Camillo and Peppone ; The main actors are Fernandel (Don Camillo) and Gino Cervi (Peppone). The film took place in Brescello , a village of the "Bassa Padana" in the province of Reggio nell'Emilia .
action
In Brescello, a village in the province of Reggio nell'Emilia on the River Po , the pastor Don Camillo and the communist mayor Peppone, opponents in politics and their ideals, “fight” for the hearts and souls of their compatriots. In comic episodes, their disputes resolve in mutual understanding.
Some humorous episodes:
- The baptism, where Don Camillo and Peppone slap each other because of the proposed name for Peppone's son, whom he wants to call " Lenin Libero Antonio"; losing out in the brawl, Peppone changes his mind and suggests the name "Camillo Libero Antonio"; but the child is christened “Libero Camillo Lenin”, because the satisfied Don Camillo says: “If you have a Don Camillo next to you, guys like him can't do anything”.
- The party where an angry Don Camillo watches Peppone knocking down a doll similar to him in a village fair.
- A football match between the Don Camillos and Peppones teams that ends with the Reds winning . Then it turns out that it had been bought by the mayor. But Don Camillo had tried to buy the game too, but offered the referee 500 lire less.
Quote
“So vi ho detto, amici miei, come sono nati il mio pretone e il mio grosso sindaco della Bassa. [...] Chi li ha creati è la Bassa. Io li ho incontrati, li ho presi sottobraccio e li ho fatti camminare su e giù per l'alfabeto. ”
“So I told you, my friends, how my great priest and my great mayor were born of Bassa. […] It was the Bassa that created it. I met them, took them under my arm and let them run up and down the alphabet. "
literature
- Giovanni Guareschi : Don Camillo and Peppone. Roman (original title: Mondo piccolo "Don Camillo" ). With 38 pen drawings by the author. German by Alfons Dalma . With an afterword and a chronological table by Ulrich Baron . Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2001, 334 pages, ISBN 3-538-06917-4
Web links
- Wikilinks
- movie theater
- Don Camillo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A first short story about Don Camillo and Peppone, Peccato confessato (Confessed Sin), was due to appear in a weekly paper in December 1946 , but its publication was rejected. The fact is quoted in the preface to the second collection of the series by Guareschi himself ( Mondo piccolo "Don Camillo e il suo gregge", op. Cit., P. XIII) .