Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet and novelist. Born in Santo Stefano Belbo, in the province of Cuneo, he moved very early to Torino. As a young man of letters, Pavese had a particular interest in English-language literature, graduating with a thesis on the poetry of Walt Whitman and translating American and British authors that were then new to the Italian public. In 1935 he was arrested on charges of anti-fascism and served almost one year. After the war he joined the Italian Communist Party, but love frustrations and political disillusions led him to his suicide, by an overdose of barbiturates, in 1950.

Some works

• Lavorare stanca (Work's tiring), 1936
• Il Compagno (The comrade), 1947
• Dialoghi con Leucò (Dialogues with Leucò), 1947
• La luna e i falò (The moon and the bonfire), 1950
• Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935?1950, 1952