By Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese used to be one in every of Italy’s nice post-war writers. His poetry used to be revolutionary—both artistically and politically—rejecting the verbal and philosophical constraints of culture and using direct, colloquial language. His matters have been peasants, hobos, and prostitutes, and this bilingual quantity comprises the entire poetry Pavese ever released, together with paintings initially deleted through Fascist censors. A landmark volume.
Cesare Pavese (1908-50) was once a novelist, poet, and translator and an immense literary determine in post-war Italy. He introduced American impact to Italian literature via his translations. Pavese’s flight from the Fascists and next confinement have been mirrored in his writings, which handled social fight and published his sympathy for the oppressed. He devoted suicide on the peak of his literary powers.
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