Babelguides: Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

Works by Cesare Pavese

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by Louise Sinclair
Original title: La luna e il falò

Set in an impoverished corner of the Piedmontese countryside, this is the Pastorale of a writer who spent most of his adult life in industrial Turin. (more...)

Among Women Only [Buy Direct]

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by D.D. Paige
Original title: Tra donne sole

In a postwar Turin portrayed as a value-less wasteland of the rich, a hard-bitten youngish woman listlessly socialises with the local gilded youth. There’s a circuit of parties, (more...)

The Political Prisoner

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by W.J. Strachan
Original title: Il carcere

The Moon and the Bonfires [Buy Direct]

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by R. W. Flint

Leather Jacket

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by Alma Murch
Original title: Selection from; Summer Storm & Festival Night

Devil in the Hills [Buy Direct]

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by D.D. Paige
Original title: Diavolo sulle colline, La bella estate

In The Devil in the Hills Pavese contrasts the city (post-war Turin) with a countryside still partly inhabited by ‘real folks’ but already becoming a playground for the Northern Italian idle rich who both fascinated and appalled him. As in Among Women Only, (more...)

Selected Letters 1924-1950

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by A E Murch

Summer Storm & Other Stories

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by A E Murch
Original title: Racconti di Cesare Pavese

In this early and particularly revealing collection of stories by a man who is now seen as one of the greatest Italian writers of the century, Pavese’s unafraid, acid-strong gaze burns through social appearances to reveal the callousness of much human behaviour, (more...)

Festival Night

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by A E Murch
Original title: Notte di festa

The first story here, Land of Exile, is about the impotence of the exile, written not long after Pavese’s own period of juridical exile for writing articles against the fascist government. The short piece Wedding Trip, (more...)

Business of Living, This

by Cesare Pavese
Translated by A E Murch
Original title: Il mestiere di vivere

(This review breaks the rules of the Babel Guide; this book is neither in print nor a work of fiction we wanted to introduce it to our readers anyway.)This Business of Living is Pavese’s dialogue with himself and his dialogue with us, (more...)

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