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PAVESE
PAVESE
PAVESE
CESARE PAVESE (1908-1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and
translator whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of Fascism and World War
II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. He is widely
considered among the major authors of the 20th century in Italy.
Pavese moved in anti-Fascist circles and was imprisoned by the government in 1935
for his activities. Between 1943 and 1945 he lived with partisans of the anti-
Fascist Resistance in the hills of Piedmont. After World War II Pavese joined the
Italian Communist Party and worked on the party's newspaper. The bulk of his
novels and short stories were published during these years.
Partly through the influence of Melville, Pavese became preoccupied with myth,
symbol, and archetype. One of his most striking books is DIALOGUES WITH LEUCÒ
(1947), poetically written conversations about the human condition. His last book
and the novel many consider his finest, THE MOON AND THE BONFIRES (1950), is a
bleak, yet compassionate story of a hero who tries to find himself and learn what
happened in his native village over the long, terrible years of Fascism, and
discovers that the past continues to haunt the present. THE BURNING BRAND: DIARIES
1935-1950, published posthumously in 1952, is striking chronicle of the author's
inner life.
== FICTION ==
== POETRY ==
* Selected Poems (Penguin, 1971). Margaret Crosland, trans.
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