Among Women Only (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesare Pavese
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Symbolic realism
- Time of Work: The late 1940’s
- Setting: Turin, Italy
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, 1940’s, Class consciousness, Women’s issues, Italy or Italians, Fashion industry
- Locales: Turin, Italy
Characters Discussed
Clelia Oitana (kleh-lee-ah oh-ih- TAH-nah), the narrator, a successful couturiere, who moves from Rome to Turin, Italy, to open a fashion house. Clelia, who had escaped from the Turin working-class quarter seventeen years before, returns, at the age of thirty-four, as an attractive, experienced woman. She had been driven by ambition to get ahead but is now aware that the life she has created is largely empty. Clelia moves among the elite young people of postwar Turin and finds them to lead frivolous, meaningless lives, escaping from boredom by engaging in...
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