Cesare Pavese (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Cesare Pavese was primarily a novelist. He wrote nine novels, beginning with Paesi tuoi in 1941 (The Harvesters, 1961). His nonfiction Dialoghi con Leucò (1947; Dialogues with Leucò, 1966) and the novel La luna e i falò (1950; The Moon and the Bonfire, 1952) are considered his masterpieces. Pavese is noted for dealing with classical myths and writing about characters from the countryside. R. W. Flint translated a selection of his fiction, and many of his works of fiction continue to be available in English.
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