The Moon and the Bonfire - Brossura

Pavese, Cesare

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0720611199 ISBN 13: 9780720611199

Casa editrice: Peter Owen Ltd, 2002

Riassunto

Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. But, after twenty years, much has changed.
Slowly, through the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past and relates it to what he finds left in the present. He looks at the lives and sometimes violent faces of the villagers he has known from childhood, setting the poverty, ignorance or indifference that binds them to these hills and valleys against the beauty of the landscape and the rhythm of the seasons. With stark realism and muted compassion, Pavese weaves the strands together and brings them to a stark and poignant climax.

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Recensione:

Returning to his Italian village after years of making good in America, Pavese's narrator discovers that the countryside of his youth has been irreversibly scarred by the second world war. As memories of his childhood rise from the landscape, so do the bodies of those who were killed during the conflict grisly evidence of the past polluting the present. Sex, betrayal and the tensions of a divided community underscore the tough lyricism of this, the author's final novel. --The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read

Wonderfully written, and beautifully translated --Sunday Times

A moving, imagistic meditation on loss and ageing, and how the simplicity and innocence childhood is eventually crushed by the passage of time. By the end, the eerie mood that lurks throughout has been teased into the foreground, as Pavese unleashes a violent climax not dissimilar to the brutal fate that Hubert Selby Jr dishes out to Tra-la-la in Last Exit to Brooklyn. --Nick Johnstone, Uncut Five Stars

L'autore:

Cesare Pavese was the author of The Political Prisoner.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Peter Owen Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0720611199
• ISBN 13: 9780720611199
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 190