The 1° March 1922 He was born at Sunrise Beppe Fenoglio. Writer and translator. Son of Hamilcar, a butcher's helper and Margaret Affair. He was a very intelligent and thoughtful child. At school proved to be a model student. Her teacher Maria Lucia Marchiaro I started learning English passion. In high school he also had two teachers Peter Nails, Professor of philosophy, and Leonardo Cocito, anti-fascist, Italian teacher who were for him a key reference point. After high school, Fenoglio arrived at University. He enrolled in the Faculty of letters but in 1943 he interrupted his studies in order to attend the course by officials. L’ 8 September changed the tide for him too. Came home. Began the period of the partisan struggle over the Langhe. In the brigades that he joined his high school teachers nails and Chahar. Was among those who liberated Sunrise between the 10 October and 2 November 1944 (Twenty-three days of Dawn). He managed to make the liaison officer at the British mission by harnessing the knowledge of English. After the war ended his partisan experience but was later an important part in his civilian life as a writer. To his work as a clerk in a Winery managed to combine writing. Fenoglio's work is among the most original in Italian literary scene of the last century. His themes were the Guide’ partisan and experience rural life over the Langhe. He used a language suited to the situation recounted, sometimes refined and cultured, other times steeped in dialectal or interlayer English expressions. He loved to linger the harder and harsh aspects of farm life made of hard work and hardship. He read with avidity, sister Marisa remembers eating at the table with his eyes fixed on the book of the moment. Managed to carve out space to write even in some moments at work. Cigarettes and writing were her favorite activities that fit into a particular harmony especially at night. The smoke was often a source of tough comparisons with her mother. He also loved the sport in a competitive way and even if it were just gifted knew how to carve out spaces for swimming, football and basketball. Acknowledged that struggle to write, Sometimes his final words on paper came after they try and weigh through “painful” remakes. He's gone away for good in February 1963 for a complex respiratory disease. His celebrity that followed most of his posthumous handed look more original and directed by an important season of life of Piedmont.
Hector Parker
