The Burning Brand - Cesare Pavese

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Résumé :
2021 Reprint of the 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. For Cesare Pavese introspection was the only way of life. It led not to escape through fantasy but to an intensification and purification of experience through an anguished search for the truth about himself and the world in which he lived. Pavese, who took his life in 1950, is often considered as the most elusively complex Italian writer of his generation, which counts such noted authors as Ignazio Silone, Alberto Moravia and Elio Vittorini. Pavese's suicide at the age of 42, a few weeks after he had received the Strega Prize, Italy's highest literary award, shocked the literary world. These are his diaries, published after his death, which reveal much of the emotional/intellectual life that drove his life and art....

Biographie:
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) ? considerato uno dei maggiori intellettuali italiani del XX secolo. Importante fu l'opera di Pavese scrittore di romanzi, poesie e racconti, ma anche quella di traduttore e critico: oltre all'Antologia americana curata da Elio Vittorini, essa comprende la traduzione di classici della letteratura da Moby Dick di Melville, nel 1932, a opere di Dos Passos, Faulkner, Defoe, Joyce e Dickens. Nel 1951 usc? postumo, edito da Einaudi e con la prefazione di Italo Calvino il volume La letteratura americana e altri saggi con tutti i saggi e gli articoli che Pavese scrisse tra il 1930 e il 1950. La sua attivit? di critico in particolare contribu? a creare, verso la met? degli anni Trenta, il sorgere di un certo mito dell'America. Lavorando nell'editoria Pavese propose alla cultura italiana scritti su temi differenti, e prima d'allora raramente affrontati, come l'idealismo e il marxismo, inclusi quelli religiosi, etnologici e psicologici....

Sommaire:
2021 Reprint of the 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. For Cesare Pavese introspection was the only way of life. It led not to escape through fantasy but to an intensification and purification of experience through an anguished search for the truth about himself and the world in which he lived. Pavese, who took his life in 1950, is often considered as the most elusively complex Italian writer of his generation, which counts such noted authors as Ignazio Silone, Alberto Moravia and Elio Vittorini. Pavese's suicide at the age of 42, a few weeks after he had received the Strega Prize, Italy's highest literary award, shocked the literary world. These are his diaries, published after his death, which reveal much of the emotional/intellectual life that drove his life and art....