Political Prisoner, The - Softcover

Pavese, Cesare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0720612624 ISBN 13: 9780720612622

Verlag: Peter Owen, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Pavese Cesare

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Críticas

'He (Pavese) brings to each scene of natural beauty the strain of the fresh eye of a person who sees these things as for the last time and to say goodbye ... The flavour of anarchy this author distils in each setting is quite remarkable.' - Stevie Smith, Observer; 'Both stories move on a plane of haunting sadness, and the translator succeeds in conveying the poetry of the original.' - London Magazine; 'Typical in its uneasy searching for a standard of personal values, of the doubts of those Italian writers who at first opposed Fascism and then effected an unhappy compromise with it ... there is never any doubt of Pavese's talent.' - Times; 'Pavese writes with a vivid quietude that is always engaging.' - Guardian;

Reseña del editor

The Political Prisoner has its autobiographical roots in Pavese's own arrest and imprisonment in Calabria for his writings in the anti-fascist magazine La Cultura. This story describes the day to day life of Stefano, an anti-fascist who has served a prison sentence and is banished to a remote southern Italian seaside resort where he awaits an official pardon. Pavese describes the monotony, the grimness and the sensuality of life in the village through the eyes of a man who realises his habits have been broken. When the summer ends Stefano can no longer kill the days by swimming and lying on the seashore. His life is empty, relationships seem pointless and he begins to take refuge in his dreams. The second novella, The Beautiful Summer, is a tale of corruption and maturity based a colony of inferior artists and their models in Turin. When a fourteen-year-old Ginia falls in love with one of the artists from this group she gradually comes to comprehend not the glamour but the futility and callousness of so-called bohemian 'freedom'.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Owen
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0720612624
• ISBN 13: 9780720612622
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256