The Burning Brand (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Cesare Pavese
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: 1935-1950
- Setting: Italy
- Principal Characters: Cesare Pavese
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Memory, Authors or writers, Alienation, Poetry or poets, Criticism, Italy or Italians, Meditation, Thought or thinking
Form and Content
In October, 1935, Cesare Pavese made the first entry in his diary; he wrote his last note on August 18, 1950. He began the diary while imprisoned by Italian Fascists and ended it a few days before his long-contemplated suicide. During those years, his literary interests shifted from writing poetry and translating American fiction to writing novels. He rose from the obscurity of his early life to achieve national recognition of his literary accomplishments by the end.
Readers interested in Pavese’s life will not find in his diary a record of his daily...
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