Research Catalog

Title

The selected works of Cesare Pavese / translated and with an introduction by R.W. Flint.

Author

Pavese, Cesare

Publication

New York : New York Review of Books, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Flint, R. W.

Description

xxiii, 397 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was born on his family's vacation farm in the country outside of Turin in northern Italy. He graduated from the University of Turin, where he wrote a thesis on Walt Whitman, beginning a continuing engagement with English-language literature that was to lead to his influential translations of Moby-Dick, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Three Lives, and Moll Flanders, among other works. Briefly exiled by the Fascist regime to Calabria in 1935, Pavese returned to Turin to work for the new publishing house of Giulio Einaudi, where he eventually became the editorial director. In 1936 he published a book of poems, Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor), and then turned to writing novels and short stories. Pavese won the Strega Prize for fiction, Italy's most prestigious award, for his novel La luna e i falo (The Moon and the Bonfires) in 1950. Later the same year, after a brief affair with an American actress, he committed suicide. Pavese's posthumous publications include his celebrated diaries, essays on American literature, and a second collection of poems, entitled Verra la morte e avra i tuoi occhi (Death Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes)."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Novels. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Novels.

Subject

Pavese, Cesare > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Translations
• Translations.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The beach -- The house on the hill -- Among women only - The devil in the hills.

ISBN

0940322854 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001005156

OCLC

• 47844723
• SCSB-11359503

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library