This Business of Living

Name: This Business of Living
Author: Cesare Pavese

by Cesare Pavese

Diary-like meditation on depression, work, and the burden of living

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Cesare Pavese

Italian novelist, poet, and translator whose fiction explored solitude, sexuality, and the mythic dimensions of ordinary life. The Moon and the Bonfires and The House on the Hill are elegiac masterpieces of postwar Italian fiction.

More by Cesare Pavese

The Moon and the BonfiresLyrical novel about return and disillusionment set in rural Piedmont
The House on the HillIntrospective novel exploring isolation, psychology, and death in rural Italy
The Devil in the HillsDark novella about hedonistic youths encountering violence and moral corruption
Among Women OnlyNovel of women's friendship and passion set in industrial Turin
The Beautiful SummerComing-of-age story of adolescent love and self-discovery during summer holidays
Lavorare StancaPoetry collection examining working-class life and industrial labor in modern Italy