This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

by Cesare Pavese

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412810191
• ISBN13: 9781412810197
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"