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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 chronologi
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- Author
- Lawrence G. Smith
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781558496736
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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