{"product_id":"selected-works-paperback-6","title":"Selected Works - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCesare Pavese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eR. W. Flint\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery,\" wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. Searchingly alert to nuances of speech, feeling, and atmosphere, and remarkably varied, his novels offer a panoramic vision, at once sensual and finely considered, of a time of tumultuous change. This volume presents readers with Pavese's major works. \u003ci\u003eThe Beach\u003c\/i\u003e is a wry summertime comedy of sexual and romantic misunderstandings, while \u003ci\u003eThe House on the Hill\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary novel of war in which a teacher flees through a countryside that is both beautiful and convulsed with terror. \u003ci\u003eAmong Women Only\u003c\/i\u003e tells of a fashion designer who enters the affluent world she has always dreamed of, only to find herself caught up in an eerie dance of destruction, and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil in the Hills\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging road novel about three young men roaming the hills in high summer who stumble on mysteries of love and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCesare 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 \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Three Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works. Briefly exiled by the Fascist regime to Calabria in 1935, Pavese returned to Turin to work for the new publishing house of Giulio Einaudi, where he eventually became the editorial director. In 1936 he published a book of poems, \u003ci\u003e Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor)\u003c\/i\u003e, and then turned to writing novels and short stories. Pavese won the Strega Prize for fiction, Italy's most prestigious award, for \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Bonfires\u003c\/i\u003e in 1950. Later the same year, after a brief affair with an American actress, he committed suicide. Pavese's posthumous publications include his celebrated diaries, essays on American literature, and a second collection of poems, entitled \u003ci\u003eVerrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eDeath Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eR.W. Flint translated, edited, and introduced \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Cesare Pavese\u003c\/i\u003e in 1968 and \u003ci\u003eMarinetti: Selected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e in 1971. He has contributed interviews, essays, translations, and reviews on Italian writers to various journals including\u003ci\u003eParnassus, Canto\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Italian Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.04 x 5.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174307631239,"sku":"9780940322851","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/07593d1ebb49744ac2c30ed1f160656e.webp?v=1733373422","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/selected-works-paperback-6","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}