Cesare Pavese Mythographer Translator Modernist A Collection Of Studies 70 Years After His Death 1st Edition Iuri Moscardi Editor by Iuri Moscardi (editor), Salvatore Renna, Maria Concetta Trovato, Antonio Garrasi, Monica Lanzillotta, Kim Grego, Mark Pietralunga, Francesco Chianese, Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici 9781648890871, 1648890873 instant download after payment.

This volume on Cesare Pavese is published on the 72nd anniversary of his death, and it aims to explore new perspectives to study this relevant intellectual. The multifaceted personality of Cesare Pavese took many different forms and allowed him to explore different aspects of literary production. He was a poet, a novelist, an essayist, a translator of some of the most important American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also worked for 20 years at Einaudi Publishing House, where he became one of the most relevant figures of the company and the Italian literary and cultural scene between the 1930s and 1950s.

This collection provides new perspectives of study by focusing on different aspects of his job and by analyzing the strong connections between his personal and professional life. It will appeal to graduate students and scholars in contemporary Italian literature.

Introduction Iuri Moscardi

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Cesare Pavese and the Landscape of Myth Salvatore Renna

Chapter 2 “The Cats Will Know”: Suggestions for a Representation of a Mythological Animal World in the Works of Cesare Pavese Maria Concetta Trovato, Antonio Garrasi

Chapter 3 The “donne vestite per gli occhi” in Cesare Pavese’s Creative Production Monica Lanzillotta

Chapter 4 Cesare Pavese the Americanist translator: A Chronology of the Myth Kim Grego

Chapter 5 Learning from the Past: Cesare Pavese’s First Steps with the American Publishing World Mark Pietralunga

Chapter 6 Recognizing Oneself in a Distorted Mirror: The Irresolvable Transnational Distance and Proximity Between Pavese and Pasolini Francesco Chianese

Chapter 7 Pavese Between European and American Modernisms  Carlo Tirinanzi de Medici

Contributors

Index