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- Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Massachusetts Press
summary
When he committed suicide at age forty-one, Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) was one of Italy’s best-known writers. A poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, he had been profoundly influenced in his early years by American literature. But later he grew disaffected with American culture, coming to see it as materialistic and shallow. This book, the first full-length English-language study of Pavese in twenty years, examines his life and the evolution of his views of America through a chronological reading of his works.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- “Introducing Cesare Pavese”
- pp. 1-14
- Part I
- One. The End Game: Connie and Cesare
- pp. 17-35
- Two. Family and Friends
- pp. 35-56
- Three. Tina
- pp. 57-85
- Five. Liberation?
- pp. 107-132
- Part II
- Six. “Viva Walt Whitman”
- pp. 135-168
- Seven. “The peach of the world”
- pp. 169-214
- Eight. “Storia passata”
- pp. 215-248
- Suggested Reading
- pp. 279-282
- Illustration Source Credits
- pp. 283-284
Additional Information
ISBN
9781613761632
Related ISBN(s)
9781558496736
MARC Record
OCLC
794701560
Pages
356
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No