biography
pronunciation:
[pavayzay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908–50)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Cuneo, NW Italy. He worked as a translator and publisher before turning to writing. A complex character, he was a tortured, politically committed intellectual who harked back to the ‘myths’ of childhood and the countryside. His short stories, such as La bella estate (1949, The Beautiful Summer), were well-received, but he is best known for his novel La luna e i falò (1950, The Moon and the Bonfires). His unsentimental celebration of Italian rural life exerted a strong influence on later Italian fiction and film making. He committed suicide. |
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