Cesare Pavese (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Though Cesare Pavese is best known as a novelist, his oeuvre includes work in a number of other literary forms. Like many novelists, he began as a poet and continued to return to that genre throughout his career. His poems are collected in Lavorare stanca (1936, 1943; Hard Labor, 1976) and in Verra la morte e avra i tuoi occhi (1951). Pavese’s poetry is now available in a comprehensive edition, Poesie edite e inedite (1962), which also includes previously uncollected work. Pavese also published a number of short stories,...

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