«Un qualsiasi Cesare Pavese»: lo sguardo politico nelle recensioni

It is not easy to determine the relationship between Pavese and politics: partly due to the author’s own contradictions, the topic has often been the subject of misunderstandings, of a discrepancy between the way Pavese actually experienced politics and the way it appeared from the outside. The dense array of reviews of his works between 1941 and 1952 (in a crucial decade for the history of Italy) clearly shows the centrality of the political element in Pavese’s reception. It also allows for a close examination of this topic from different perspectives, revealing a portrait of an era in which politics was a profoundly compelling issue, inseparable from literary activity.