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In Torino in his native Piedmont, Pavese studied English and American literature and wrote a dissertation on Walt Whitman. He read and translated Defoe, Dickens, Joyce, Dos Passos, Stein and Faulkner and his version of Melville's, Moby Dick is a classic. Except for his book of poems Lavorare stanca (Work Wearies) (1936), Pavese's chief works are the novels The Comrade (1948), La Casa in Collina (The House on the Hill) (1949), Prima che il gallo canti (Before the Cock Crows) (1949), La bella estate (The Beautiful Summer) (1949), and his last and best, The Moon and the Bonfire (1952). During World War II, he was head of the Rome office of the publishing house of Einaudi and, with Elio Vittorini, did much to encourage young writers.

Although a member of the Communist Party, he had not joined the anti-Fascist resistance. Unhappy in love, unable to believe in Christ, and disappointed with things in postwar Italy, he finally made good on what he had often urged as the finest of 'final solutions' for himself, committing suicide after winning the coveted Strega Prize, for La bella estate.

'There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery,' wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. Searchingly alert to nuances of speech, feeling, and atmosphere, and remarkably varied, his novels offer a panoramic vision, at once sensual and fin 'There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery,' wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. Searchingly alert to nuances of speech, feeling, and atmosphere, and remarkably varied, his novels offer a panoramic vision, at once sensual and finely considered, of a time of tumultuous change. This volume presents readers with Pavese's major works.

The Beach is a wry summertime comedy of sexual and romantic misunderstandings, while The House on the Hill is an extraordinary novel of war in which a teacher flees through a countryside that is both beautiful and convulsed with terror. Among Women Only tells of a fashion designer who enters the affluent world she has always dreamed of, only to find herself caught up in an eerie dance of destruction, and The Devil in the Hills is an engaging road novel about three young men roaming the hills in high summer who stumble on mysteries of love and death. I remembered Pavese with great fondness from my youth as someone who captured inarticulate peasants with compassion, somewhat like Grazia Deledda or Giovanni Verga but in the post-World War II context. Evidently, I was actually reading someone else. This volume is made up of fournovellas or novels centered around Turin and the countryside around it, not far from the Italian Riviera.

The narrators are both articulate and stricken by ennui. With one exception, they are concerned with entertaining I remembered Pavese with great fondness from my youth as someone who captured inarticulate peasants with compassion, somewhat like Grazia Deledda or Giovanni Verga but in the post-World War II context. Evidently, I was actually reading someone else. This volume is made up of fournovellas or novels centered around Turin and the countryside around it, not far from the Italian Riviera. The narrators are both articulate and stricken by ennui.

With one exception, they are concerned with entertaining themselves on the beach, by having usually passionless affairs, and opening boutiques. This is less the sideline on Italian Neo-Realism that I remembered than a wholehearted plunge into a provincial variety of the glittering world that Fellini would examine in the sixties (to be fair, Pavese beat him there by a decade). The exception is 'The House in the Hills', which captures the confusing time after the fall of Mussolini but before the Allied Armies liberated the entire country; that gives the reader people who are fighting for their country against an occupying force. That does not include the narrator, who is himself cruel and spends much of the latter part of the book hiding and fleeing. Still, 'The House in the Hills' is a relief among all the self-obsession of the other pieces in the book. The narrator in 'The House in the Hills' at least tries to save some of those around him. The other three pieces convey a vision of an atomized, meaningless society that must at least have contributed to Pavese's suicide, which is usually attributed to the end of an affair with an actress.

So far, I've read the first two novellas in this collection. The Beach (1942) didn't grab me at all, so I moved on to The House on the Hill (1949), to which I give 5 stars.

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Its first-person narrative by a Turin teacher grasping for certainty during a transitional period in the Second World War is characterized by short sentences, abrupt transitions and, most of all, constant anxiety. It captures a transitory wartime situation as well in a serious way as Josef Skvorecky’s captures it So far, I've read the first two novellas in this collection. The Beach (1942) didn't grab me at all, so I moved on to The House on the Hill (1949), to which I give 5 stars. Its first-person narrative by a Turin teacher grasping for certainty during a transitional period in the Second World War is characterized by short sentences, abrupt transitions and, most of all, constant anxiety. It captures a transitory wartime situation as well in a serious way as Josef Skvorecky’s captures it (in Czechoslovakia) in a comic way. But House is not nearly as enjoyable to read.

The style is simple, but the reading is difficult, sometimes painful, because one shares the narrator’s uncertainty (especially if, like me, one does not know the history he was living through) and anxiety. The narration often doesn’t make sense, not in the usual way. It’s not about sense, it’s about feelings, about the anxieties of war, about its emotional rather than physical violence. There is little action, people come and go, and where they are and whether or when they’ll return is always up in the air. The House on the Hill is truly a great, singular novel. The stories of this book reminded me a lot of Michelangelo Antonioni's films in that they both tend to portray a kind of 'cultivated boredom' (to borrow a phrase from the book.) Rich, young Italians doing relatively nothing, discussing, enjoying travel, wine and other little bourgeois pleasures. Where Antonioni is memorable, I don't think Pavese is apt to stick in my head.

Codec Rv30 Free Realm. The writing is good, and carries the same attention to small detail that's also present in Antonioni, but the stories just ar The stories of this book reminded me a lot of Michelangelo Antonioni's films in that they both tend to portray a kind of 'cultivated boredom' (to borrow a phrase from the book.) Rich, young Italians doing relatively nothing, discussing, enjoying travel, wine and other little bourgeois pleasures. Where Antonioni is memorable, I don't think Pavese is apt to stick in my head. The writing is good, and carries the same attention to small detail that's also present in Antonioni, but the stories just aren't that interesting.

I liked all four novellas, but the two middle ones- 'The House on the Hill' and 'Among Women Only'- were my favorites. Quotes: 'The House on the Hill' It was summer and I remembered other evenings when I was sleeping in the city, evenings when I also came back down late at night, singing or laughing, when thousands of lights outlined the hill or the city at the end of the road. The city was a lake of light. We were living in the city then. We didn't realize how short a time we had. Friendships and I liked all four novellas, but the two middle ones- 'The House on the Hill' and 'Among Women Only'- were my favorites.

Quotes: 'The House on the Hill' It was summer and I remembered other evenings when I was sleeping in the city, evenings when I also came back down late at night, singing or laughing, when thousands of lights outlined the hill or the city at the end of the road. The city was a lake of light. We were living in the city then. We didn't realize how short a time we had. Friendships and long days to spend in the most casual meetings, we had plenty of both. We were living, or so we thought, with others and for others.

As I ate I thought of the meeting, what had happened. I was more struck by the interval, the years, than by Cate. It was incredible. I seemed to have reopened a room, a forgotten cupboard, and to have found another man's life inside, a futile life, full of risks.

It was this that I had forgotten. Not so much Cate, not the poor pleasures of those days, the rash young man who ran away from things thinking they might still happen anyway, who thought of himself as a grown man and was always waiting for his life to begin in earnest; this person amazed me.

What did the two of us have in common? What had I done for him? Those banal, emotional evenings, those easy adventures, those hopes as familiar as a bed or a window- it all seemed like the memory of a distant country, of a life of agitation; thinking back, one wondered how it could have been possible both to enjoy and betray it in that fashion. That now familiar disorder, that silent floundering and crumbling, was a sort of moral holiday, a crude revulsion from the intolerable news of the papers and radio.

The war raged far away, methodical and futile. We had fallen, this time with no escape, into the hands of our old masters, now more expert and bloodstained. The jolly bosses of yesterday became ferocious in defense of their skins and their last hopes. Our escape was only in disorder, in the very collapse of every law. To be captured and identified was death. Peace, any kind of peace, at least imaginable during the summer, now seemed a joke.

We had to see our fate through to the end. How far away the air raids seemed. Something worse than fires or ruins had started. He survives with a soul left to bleed out. Feelings of nostalgia, insouciance, and waiting.

I think the most striking trait of this novella is the narrator's sense of waiting that never leaves; early on he recalls how in his youth he was 'always waiting for his life to begin in earnest'. We don't learn if he ever felt that it did, just that now he was preoccupied with a different waiting: a waiting for the war to end. This waiting never finds relief in the novella, not even in its final passage: I don't believe that it can end. Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: 'And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?' I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate.

Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only the dead know, and only for them is the war really over.

Of the four novellas collected here, I fell most deeply in love with The House on the Hill. The relationship between that story and early Calvino is palpable and exciting, but the story itself is better still. The Devil in the Hills is more Fitzgerald and I came to love its characters. I rated the book five stars for those two stories alone. The Beach is similar enough to Bolano's Third Reich that I've enjoyed reading them in tandem, though I don't know that I would love either in isolation. Amo Of the four novellas collected here, I fell most deeply in love with The House on the Hill.

The relationship between that story and early Calvino is palpable and exciting, but the story itself is better still. The Devil in the Hills is more Fitzgerald and I came to love its characters. I rated the book five stars for those two stories alone. The Beach is similar enough to Bolano's Third Reich that I've enjoyed reading them in tandem, though I don't know that I would love either in isolation. Among Women Only left me flat and I kept wishing the narrator had been a man because Pavese never really pulls off the feminine point of view (any feminine point of view).