“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Edição bilíngüe. Trabalhar cansa é o livro de estreia de Cesare Pavese, considerado um dos grandes escritores italianos e intelectual pertencente ao grupo formado na época da Segunda Guerra por Norberto Bobbio, Leone Ginzburg, Ellio Vittorini e Ital
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 re
Set amongst the hills, vineyards, and villages of Piedmont, this tale centers on three young men as they spend what is seemingly their last free summer talking, drinking, and enjoying life. Fascinated with their wealthy acquaintance, Poli, they soon fi
"There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery," wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. Searchingly alert to nuances
A series of dialogues between mythological figures, treating the question of human destiny as the personal content of myths. In his foreword, Pavese elaborates on his method in the Dialogues: "What is more acutely disturbing than to see familiar scenes tr
«I due romanzi han tutt'e due andamento di memorie, e lo stesso tema generale: la posizione d'un intellettuale in un momento di "scelta" politica, non d'idee, che quelle son date per già scelte, ma d'azione, di presenza». Italo CalvinoIl carcere e La c
L'aspirazione al compimento di un'educazione umana, la volontà di spezzare il cerchio di solitudine e di tragicità che per Cesare Pavese circondava da sempre la vita. La speranza a tutti i costi di dare un valore alla propria attraverso la politica. Il
"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come matte, e tutto era bello, specialmente di notte, che tornando stanche morte speravano ancora che succedesse qualcosa, che scoppiasse un incendio, che in ca
