Of sea and words and toil: the poetry of Cesare Pavese.

Quadrant | July 1, 2004| | Copyright

ON AUGUST 27, 1950, two weeks short of his forty-second birthday, Cesare Pavese took an overdose of sleeping pills in a hotel room in his native Turin. A suicide note, inscribed on the first page of his 1947 Dialogues with Leuco, read: "I forgive everyone and ask everyone's forgiveness. OK? Don't gossip too much."

The gossiping began straight away, with newspapers querying the identity of various young ladies that accompanied the funeral procession, and has continued more or less unabated ever since. The formidable myth-building of the 1960s and 1970s gave way to ...

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