Stop It and Act
Tim Parks: Pavese’s Road to Suicide, 11 February 2010
This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-50
by Cesare Pavese, translated by A.E. Murch.
Transaction, 350 pp., £24.50, March 2009,978 1 4128 1019 7 Show More
by Cesare Pavese, translated by A.E. Murch.
Transaction, 350 pp., £24.50, March 2009,
“... Cesare Pavese kept a diary from 1935, when, aged 27, he was ‘exiled’ to Calabria for anti-Fascist activities, until 1950, when he committed suicide. During those years he became a successful poet and novelist, translated many celebrated American and British novels and, as chief editor at Einaudi, was responsible for publishing some of the most important writers of his time ... ”
