The Moon And The Bonfires Cesare Pavese
introduction
The moon and the bonfires is a novel by Cesare Pavese written in 1949 and published in 1950. The book is considered the definitive landing place of Pavese's poetics, along a line that unites his previous works (as your countries, Il carcere, La bella summer, the Dialogues with Leucò and The house in the hills) and transposes the themes in a symbolic perspective that combines childhood memories in Santo Stefano Belbo, the reasons for anti-fascism, the poetics of the myth developed during those years. The story is told in first person by the protagonist, known as Anguilla.
summary
The story is set immediately after the end of the Second World War; the forty-year-old Anguilla - the protagonist of whom we only know this nickname, left over from his teenage years - returns to the Langhe, his homeland, after having emigrated to America for many years. Anguilla is an orphan: adopted by a peasant family who lives at the Gaminella farmhouse, near Santo Stefano Belbo, at thirteen, the adoptive father died, Anguilla moved to work at the Mora farmhouse, where he became friends with Silvia, Irene and the beautiful Santina, daughters of the master. The protagonist then comes into contact with anti-fascist circles in Genoa, on the occasion of his military service and, also to escape the regime, emigrates to the United States, where he accumulates a small fortune. The nostalgia for the land of his childhood and the memory of the world of the countryside, however, push him to return to Santo Stefano Belbo.
Discover all the books available on the shop!
@CUSTOMER_NAME@
@AUTHOR_PROFILE@ @COMMENT_ISO_COUNTRY@@COMMENT_TITLE@
@COMMENT_COMMENT@