Cesare Pavese (1908-1950), novelist, poet, and critic, ranks as perhaps the most important Italian novelist of the 20th century. His work fuses considerations of poetic and epic representation, the theme of solitude, and the concept of myth. Cesare Paves...

Few writers in Italy in the twentieth century rival Cesare Pavese for receiving the uninterrupted and undiminished attention of literary critics and the petulant curiosity of the mass media. Indeed, Pavese, who extensively theorized about myth, has assum...

Cesare Pavese's life and works demonstrate a recurrent and finally unresolved contradiction. Although in many ways Pavese was the literary figure most central to the cultural life of his times and was thus the literary spokesman, along with Elio Vittorin...