Cesare Pavese
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.8 | 6546 Users | 321 Reviews
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| Original Title: | La luna e i falò |
| ISBN: | 0720611199 (ISBN13: 9780720611199) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Santo Stefano Belbo(Italy) Piedmont(Italy) |
| Literary Awards: | PEN Translation Prize for R.W. Flint (2003) |
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Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He looks at the lives and sometimes violent fates of the villagers he has known since childhood, seeing the poverty, ignorance, or indifference that binds them to the hills and valleys against the beauty of the landscape and the rhythm of the seasons. With stark realism and muted compassion, Pavese weaves separate strands of narrative together, bringing them to a stark and poignant climax.Point Of Books The Moon and the Bonfire
| Title | : | The Moon and the Bonfire |
| Author | : | Cesare Pavese |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1950) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 6546 Users | 321 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books The Moon and the Bonfire
I found this curiously unsatisfying. While it was clearly attempting to work on more than one level, the only level which came across effectively for me was the obvious one of description of a period in Italian history and the way life was for the people in this poor mountainous southern area of Italy. I was not swept away by the imagery and the emotional drama, and was left with a strangely unaffecting depiction of a way of life, which was sad and despairing but somehow lacked resonance asI feel like I have to say something about this book, as I only gave it two stars, but I don't really know what. I think the romantic/nostalgic/aesthetic in me was what kept me turning the pages. That and it was a relatively short book. All the content was utterly depressing, but that didn't bother me so much I guess. Maybe I need to process more what, if anything, the book said or was supposed to say to me. Basically, the book is a guy revisiting where he grew up and reminiscing. I guess I'm
Ah, a tremendous work, dark and with a subtle vein of concision that never appears simple. Pavese is the master of the long-simmering gotcha! that eludes even the best of authors. This novel is about a Piedmontese guy who grew up as a bastard peasant child in a little village working the farms and vineyards. As an adult, he ran away to America and made his (vague) fortune. The bulk of the story involves him returning to his village years later, taking up with an old friend who never left (an
It took me a few tries to get fully engrossed, probably because the tone is deeply ruminative. In spite of so much interior activity on the narrator's part, the most memorable characters were Nuto, the narrator's old friend, and Silvia, remembered from his youth on the farm La Mora. The language was full of detail, and I wonder how much of that detail would have seemed banal if I weren't obsessed with Italy. Anyway, I'd read this again for the characters I mentioned, and for the sense of a river
Pavese is an explicator of the Italian countryside--excellent if you are the Italian countryside, and if not, not.
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I admit it: I have an irrational interest in post-war Italy. For some reason I find Itaalian confusion about the war much more interesting than German confusion about it, perhaps because it's pretty darn hard for anyone in Germany to pretend that the Nazis were, in any way, a benefit to the world, whereas there is an (entirely unpersuasive) argument for the Italian fascists. The German resistance existed, but not the way the Italian resistance did. German communists got to play out (a deeply
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