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This Business of Living - Diaries 1935-1950 (Hardcover)
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This Business of Living - Diaries 1935-1950 (Hardcover)
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On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received
the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August
26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his own
life. Shortly before his death, he methodically destroyed all his
private papers. His diary is all that remains and for this the
contemporary reader can be grateful. Contemporary speculation
attributed this tragedy to either an unhappy love aff air with the
American film star Constance Dawling or his growing disillusionment
with the Italian Communist Party. His Diaries, however, reveal a
man whose art was his only means of repressing the specter of
suicide which had haunted him since childhood: an obsession that
finally overwhelmed him. As John Taylor notes, he possessed
something much more precious than a political theory: a natural
sensitivity to the plight and dignity of common people, be they
bums, priests, grape-pickers, gas station attendants, office
workers, or anonymous girls picked up on the street (though to
women, the author could--as he admitted--be as misogynous as he was
affectionate). Bitter and incisive, This Business of Living, is
both moving and painful to read and stands with James Joyce's
Letters and Andre Gide's Journals as one of the great literary
testaments of the twentieth century.
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