Contents: Preface, Introduction: Silone in the context of comparative exile research; The conditions of literary exile in Switzerland, 1929-44; Silone's role in the Swiss left-wing press: social politics and technology in information, 1932-34; The reception and rewriting of Brot und Wein/Pane e vino: 'The story of the human race... ever-changing and unchanging'; Silone's role in the Swiss left-wing press: literature and society in Die Zeit, Das freie Wort and Der Aufbau, (1936-44); Dialogue versus demagogy: Silone's evolving critique of fascism and the dictator figure; Conclusion: 'The choice of comrades'; Selected bibliography; Index.