Beppe Fenoglio

Italian novelist and writer (1922–1963), known for works set in the Langhe and for literature connected to the wartime Resistance; died of bronchial cancer.

Born 1922, died 1963 from bronchial cancer. Often associated with narratives set in the Langhe and with former partisan experience. La Paga Del Sabato is described as an early work; it was negatively judged in 1950 by Elio Vittorini and appreciated by Italo Calvino (as noted in the available review).

The available review praises La Paga Del Sabato as among the reviewer's best reads, highlights Fenoglio's Langhe as a unique literary environment, and notes Fenoglio's distance from partisan nostalgia. The critique references Vittorini's negative 1950 judgment and Calvino's appreciation.

For:Readers of 20th-century Italian literature, fans of partisan novels, and anyone interested in literary depictions of the Langhe.