Two Poems for T. | Life and Work
In the following essay, O’Healy explores critical reaction to Pavese’s life and work.
Despite the explicit plea for discretion made in his suicide note, Pavese’s life and death have been the object of unrelenting speculation and discussion. More has been written about him than about any other Italian author of the twentieth century. Pavese’s suicide, eventually interpreted as the gesture of an entire generation, was, in fact, simply a private act. It was the direct result of his fragile mental health, characterized by recurrent bouts of extreme depression and exacerbated by the external pressures that converged at a single moment in time. Public fascination with this...
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