Cesare Pavese Mythographer, Translator, Modernist: A Collection of Studies 70 Years after His Death

Download or read book Cesare Pavese Mythographer, Translator, Modernist: A Collection of Studies 70 Years after His Death written by Iuri Moscardi and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on Cesare Pavese is published on the 72nd anniversary of his death, and it aims to explore new perspectives to study this relevant intellectual. The multifaceted personality of Cesare Pavese took many different forms and allowed him to explore different aspects of literary production. He was a poet, a novelist, an essayist, a translator of some of the most important American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also worked for 20 years at Einaudi Publishing House, where he became one of the most relevant figures of the company and the Italian literary and cultural scene between the 1930s and 1950s. This collection provides new perspectives of study by focusing on different aspects of his job and by analyzing the strong connections between his personal and professional life. It will appeal to graduate students and scholars in contemporary Italian literature.