Biography

Lajolo, Davide. "From Poetry to Short Stories." In his An Absurd Vice: A Biography of Cesare Pavese, translated and edited by Mario and Mark Pietralunga, pp. 135-46. New York: New Directions, 1983.

Details the period during which Pavese began writing short stories and how his personal experiences were manifested in his work.

Criticism

Bacchilega, Cristina. "Cesare Pavese and America: The Myth of Translation and the Translation of Myth." Disposino VII, Nos. 19-21 (1982): 77-83.

Focuses on the difficulty that Pavese's works have had in being accepted by an American audience. Bacchilega also discusses the influence of American myths on Pavese's writing.

Casson, Lionel. "Night Thoughts from Olympus." Saturday Review 48, No. 23 (5 June 1965): 25.

Praises Pavese's Dialogues with Leucò but finds fault with the translation by William Arrowsmith and Donald Carne-Ross.

Dalglish, James. "Sociolinguistics in Cesare Pavese's Ciau Masino." Italica 62, No. 3 (Autumn 1985): 230-45.

Explores Pavese's use of authentic dialects and linguistics that offer a realistic interpretation of different societies and individuals in Ciau Masino.

Murch, A. E. Introductions in Stories, by Cesare Pavese, translated by A. E. Murch, pp. 7-11, 215-17. New York: Ecco Press, 1987.

Discusses Pavese's life in connection with the themes and subjects in Festival Night, and Other Stories and Summer Storm, and Other Stories.

Young, B.A. "New Fiction and Old." Punch CCXLVII, No. 6467 (19 August 1964): 282.

Comments on the use of characters in Festival Night and Pavese's conception of the short story genre.

Additional coverage of Pavese's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 104; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 128; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 3.