Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780742579712
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2013-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

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The Political Prisoner

Cesare Pavese

Like Carlo Levi, Cesare Pavese was associated with the anti-fascist movement Justice and Liberty in Turin; also like Levi, Pavese was sentenced to confino in the Mezzogiorno and experienced the revelations of the northern intellectual coming into contact with the poor, rural peasantry. Here, though, the comparisons end; for if Levi was gregarious, extroverted, and outgoing, Pavese was painfully shy, reserved, and insecure. A major theme of his writing is his difficulty in establishing human relationships, especially with women. In order to flee the linguistic and aesthetic bombast of the fascist regime, Pavese sought refuge in American literature, translating the works of Emerson, Whitman, Anderson, and Steinbeck. The themes in Pavese’s writings—solitude, nature, nostalgia, violence, myth, and destiny—are all found here in The Political Prisoner. To protect the woman he loves, a member of the Italian Communist Party, Pavese is willing to suffer confino, only to discover later that the woman he sought to protect has betrayed him. As a writer and editor at the prestigious publishing house of Einaudi in Turin, Pavese was a major figure in postwar Italian culture but committed suicide in 1950. His diary, Il mestiere di vivere, was published posthumously in 1952.

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