Notes “Introducing Cesare Pavese” 1. Editors’ introduction to “Sotto il gelo dell’acqua c’è l’erba”: Omaggio a Cesare Pavese, ed. Mariarosa Masoero et al. (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2001), v. See Leslie A. Fiedler, “Introducing Cesare Pavese,” in No! In Thunder: Essays on Myth and Literature (Boston: Beacon Press, 1960), 135–49; originally published in Kenyon Review 16, no. 4 (Autumn 1954): 536–53. 2. Fiedler, “Introducing Cesare Pavese,” 135n. 3. Donald Heiney, America in Modern Italian Literature (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1964). 4. The two works which bracket this period are Áine O’Healy, Cesare Pavese (Boston: Twayne, 1988), and Cesare Pavese and Anthony Chiuminatto: Their Correspondence, ed. Mark Pietralunga (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). 5. The Centro di Studi di Letteratura Italiana in Piemonte “Guido Gozzano– Cesare Pavese” is based at the Università degli Studi di Torino (see http://www. gozzanopavese.it). The index is available at http://www.ad900.it/homesito. asp?IDSezione=33&IDSito=1 (accessed September 9, 2007). 6. Italo Calvino, “Pavese: Essere e fare,” in Una pietra sopra: Discorsi di lettertura e società (Turin: Einaudi, 1980), 63. 7. The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, trans. R. W. Flint (New York: New York Review of Books, 2001), 88–91. 8. Geno Pampaloni, Trent’anni con Cesare Pavese: Diario contro diario (Milan: Rusconi, 1981), 114. Pampaloni uses as an example the same long passage in full that I have chosen to excerpt and gloss. 9. See Roberto Gigliucci, Cesare Pavese (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2001), 157–58. [249] 10. Pavese, Lett. am., 294. 11. Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, 5. 12. Pavese himself categorized his last four novels as “symbolic reality” in his diary entry of November 26, 1949; Il mestiere, 378. Now, literature courses in Italian universities are devoted to this aspect of Pavese. For example, Pietro Luxardo Franchi teaches a three-credit course at the University of Padua on “Il realismo mitico e simbolico di Cesare Pavese.” 13. Il mestiere, 166 (entry for December 14, 1939). 14. William Arrowsmith, introduction to Hard Labor: Poems by Cesare Pavese (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), xxix; Pampaloni, Trent’anni con Cesare Pavese, 137, 46, and 182; Fiedler, “Introducing Cesare Pavese,” 147; John Simon, “Return to the Scenes of Childhood,” The New York Times Book Review, March 24, 1968, 5. 15. William Arrowsmith, “Boom Fiction,” New York Review of Books, July 30, 1964. Available online at http:/www.nybooks.com/articles/13266. 16. Pampaloni, Trent’anni con Cesare Pavese, 115. 17. Pavese, Romanzi, 803. 18. Anco Marzio Mutterle, I fioretti del diavolo: Nuovi studi su Cesare Pavese (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2003), 81. 19. Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, 169. 20. Ibid., 174. 21. “Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground,” words and music by Walter C. Kittredge (1863). The full lyrics of the main chorus are: Many are the hearts that are weary tonight Wishing for the war to cease; Many are the hearts looking for the right To see the dawn of peace. Tenting tonight, tenting tonight, Tenting on the old camp ground. In the final chorus, the last two lines change to: Dying tonight, dying tonight, Dying on the old camp ground. 22. Susan Sontag, “The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer,” first published 1962; included in her first collection of essays, Against Interpretation (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966). 23. Calvino, Una pietra sopra, 59–60. 24. Italo Calvino, Preface to Lett. am., xi. 25. Sigma (Genoa), nos. 3 and 4, December 1964. The authors of the various pieces in the issue included, among others, Lorenzo Mondo, Marziano Guglielminetti, Claudio Gorlier, Furio Jesi, Sergio Pautasso, Giorgio Barberi Squarotti, and Johannes Hösle. 26. Fiedler, “Introducing Cesare Pavese,” 139. 27. Patrizia Lorenzi-Davitti, Pavese e la cultura americana: Fra mito e razionalità (Messina-Florence: G. D’Anna, 1975), 179. 250 ]NOTES TO PAGES 5–10 [34.229.50.161] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 20:32 GMT) 28. The bibliography of writings about Umberto Eco rivals that of writings by him. A good English-language introduction is Peter Bondanella, Umberto Eco and the Open Text: Semiotics, Fiction, Popular Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). For Celati, see the full-length study by Rebecca J. West, Gianni Celati: The Craft of Everyday Storytelling (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000). 29. Il mestiere, 392 (entry for March 6, 1950). 1. The End Game 1. Pavese, Il mestiere, 387 (entry for January 14, 1950). 2. Bosley Crowther, review of Bitter Rice, New York Times, September 19...