Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese was born in 1908 in Santo Stefano Belbo, a village in the Piedmontese hills of northern Italy, the landscape that would haunt all of his writing. He studied literature at the University of Turin, where he wrote a thesis on Walt Whitman and began translating American novels, introducing Italian readers to Melville, Faulkner, Dos Passos, and Steinbeck. His anti-fascist sympathies led to his arrest and internal exile to Calabria in 1935, an experience that marked him deeply. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Moon and the Bonfires.