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Availability:In StockContributor:Cesare Pavese, William Arrowsmith (Translator), Ted Olson (Afterword by)Publish date:2025-06-17Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681378787ISBN-10:1681378787UPC:9781681378787Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Italian, Animals & Nature, PlacesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC3NFEQ3PJ
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A landmark translation of passionate, fiercely intelligent poetry about coming of age by one of the most influential Italian writers of the twentieth century. In the spring of 1935, the young Cesare Pavese was sentenced, for "antifascist activities," to three years of detention in a small seaside village in Calabria. Far away from his familiar life in the city of Turin and forced to rely on his...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681378787ISBN-10:1681378787UPC:9781681378787Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Italian, Animals & Nature, PlacesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC3NFEQ3PJ
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...
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Cesare Pavese, William Arrowsmith (Translator), Ted Olson (Afterword by)
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