| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"Introducing Cesare Pavese" 1 -- 1 The End Game: Connie and Cesare 17 -- 2 Family and Friends 35 -- 3 Tina 57 -- 4 Einaudi, Fernanda, and World War II 86 -- 5 Liberation? 107 -- 6 "Viva Walt Whitman" 135 -- 7 "The peach of the world" 169 -- 8 "Storia passata" 215 |
| Summary |
"When he committed suicide at age forty-one, Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was one of Italy's best-known writers." "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." "Combining biography and literary analysis, Lawrence G. Smith illuminates Pavese's life and also his tragic death, precipitated by a brief failed love affair with Constance Dowling, an American movie actress fifteen years his junior. Although he barely knew Dowling, her departure from Italy in April 1950 triggered Pavese's long-latent suicidal impulses', and he killed himself four months later."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
| Notes |
OldControl:muse9781613761632 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pavese, Cesare -- Knowledge -- America
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| SUBJECT |
Pavese, Cesare -- Knowledge -- America
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Pavese, Cesare fast |
| Subject |
Authors, Italian -- 20th century -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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Authors, Italian
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America
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008024531 |
| ISBN |
9781613761632 |
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1613761635 |
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