Giovannino Guareschi, Mondo Piccolo [Little World]

Alan Perry (Gettysburg College)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Dec 1946 - Dec 1966

Places

Italy (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Prose Fiction Narrative

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A few days before Christmas 1946, Giovannino Guareschi, editor of the conservative weekly newspaper

Candido

(Milan), felt acutely stressed in trying to meet an impending deadline; he needed to send his proofs to final printing but several inches of copy remained blank. Luckily, he had written a short tale about a Catholic priest named Don Camillo and Peppone, a Communist mayor, destined for the magazine

Oggi

, and, at the last minute, he placed it instead in his own newspaper, giving it the title “Peccato confessato” (“A Sin Confessed”) for a column named

Mondo piccolo

(Little World) (Guareschi,

Qui si spiega, in quattro parole

vi – viii). This harried start led to the most successful expression of Italian serialized fiction in the twentieth century. Over the next two decades,…

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Citation: Perry, Alan. "Mondo Piccolo". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 September 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34168, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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