Cesare Pavese and America : Life, Love, and Literature / Lawrence G. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Lawrence G., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Italian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Italian.

Pavese, Cesare--Knowledge--America.

Pavese, Cesare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 303 p., [32] p. of plates ) ill., map ;

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When he committed suicide at age forty-one, Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was one of Italy's best-known writers. A poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, he had been profoundly influenced in his early years by American literature. But later he grew disaffected with American culture, coming to see it as materialistic and shallow. 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781613761632

1613761635

OCLC:

794701560