TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morselli,Guido
AU  - Randall,Frederika
TI  - The communist
T2  - New York Review Books classics
SN  - 9781681370781
U1  - 853 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review Books
KW  - Communists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Labor
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Meaning (Psychology)
KW  - Belief and doubt
KW  - FICTION / Political
KW  - FICTION / Psychological
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - Italian fiction - English translation
N2  - "A unique political coming of age story, now in English for the first time. An NYRB Classics Original. The Communist is the story of a life lived in the  service of a faith and what happens when that faith is lost. Walter  Ferranini, a child of Italy's agricultural heartland, begins as an earnest  autodidact who works as a labor organizer before being driven, under  Mussolini, into exile in the United States, the belly of the capitalist  beast. After World War II, he returns to Italy and enters parliament as a  communist MP. Then Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin's crimes  leads to a crisis in Walter's life. He has come to question that most basic communist belief, that human life finds its fulfillment in labor, and he writes an article expressing his doubts. It is a scandal, as, in  the eyes of the prudish party elders, is his new relationship with  Nuccia, a journalist who is a married woman. Under these circumstances, Walter is invited for the first time to visit the Soviet Union, and  there he finds himself bewildered beyond words.  In The Communist, Guido Morselli portrays a man of conviction cast adrift with deep and compelling sympathy"--
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