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El diablo en las colinas
Buenos Aires. 21 cm. 135 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada.. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.
176 pages, Paperback
Published November 27, 2024
About the author
Cesare Pavese
336 books1,324 followersCesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control of literature, Pavese translated many 20th-century American writers in the 1930s and '40s: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; a 19th-century writer who influenced him profoundly, Herman Melville (one of his first translations was of Moby Dick); and the Irish novelist James Joyce. He also published criticism, posthumously collected in La letteratura americana e altri saggi (1951; American Literature, Essays and Opinions, 1970).
A founder and, until his death, an editor of the publishing house of Einaudi, Pavese also edited the anti-Fascist review La Cultura. His work led to his arrest and imprisonment by the government in 1935, an experience later recalled in “Il carcere” (published in Prima che il gallo canti, 1949; in The Political Prisoner, 1955) and the novella Il compagno (1947; The Comrade, 1959). His first volume of lyric poetry, Lavorare stanca (1936; Hard Labour, 1976), followed his release from prison. An initial novella, Paesi tuoi (1941; The Harvesters, 1961), recalled, as many of his works do, the sacred places of childhood. Between 1943 and 1945 he lived with partisans of the anti-Fascist Resistance in the hills of Piedmont.
The bulk of Pavese's work, mostly short stories and novellas, appeared between the end of the war and his death. Partly through the influence of Melville, Pavese became preoccupied with myth, symbol, and archetype. One of his most striking books is Dialoghi con Leucò (1947; Dialogues with Leucò, 1965), poetically written conversations about the human condition. The novel considered his best, La luna e i falò (1950; The Moon and the Bonfires, 1950), is a bleak, yet compassionate story of a hero who tries to find himself by visiting the place in which he grew up. Several other works are notable, especially La bella estate (1949; in The Political Prisoner, 1955).
Shortly after receiving the Strega Prize for it, Pavese took his own life in his hotel room by taking an overdose of pills.
A founder and, until his death, an editor of the publishing house of Einaudi, Pavese also edited the anti-Fascist review La Cultura. His work led to his arrest and imprisonment by the government in 1935, an experience later recalled in “Il carcere” (published in Prima che il gallo canti, 1949; in The Political Prisoner, 1955) and the novella Il compagno (1947; The Comrade, 1959). His first volume of lyric poetry, Lavorare stanca (1936; Hard Labour, 1976), followed his release from prison. An initial novella, Paesi tuoi (1941; The Harvesters, 1961), recalled, as many of his works do, the sacred places of childhood. Between 1943 and 1945 he lived with partisans of the anti-Fascist Resistance in the hills of Piedmont.
The bulk of Pavese's work, mostly short stories and novellas, appeared between the end of the war and his death. Partly through the influence of Melville, Pavese became preoccupied with myth, symbol, and archetype. One of his most striking books is Dialoghi con Leucò (1947; Dialogues with Leucò, 1965), poetically written conversations about the human condition. The novel considered his best, La luna e i falò (1950; The Moon and the Bonfires, 1950), is a bleak, yet compassionate story of a hero who tries to find himself by visiting the place in which he grew up. Several other works are notable, especially La bella estate (1949; in The Political Prisoner, 1955).
Shortly after receiving the Strega Prize for it, Pavese took his own life in his hotel room by taking an overdose of pills.
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April 4, 2025
Novela de las que escuchas y hueles. Me ha gustado menos de lo que habría querido.
"De mi infancia solo me quedaba el verano. Las calles estrechas que desembocaban por doquier en el campo, de día y de noche, eran las verjas de la vida y del mundo. Gran maravilla si un coche, venido de quién sabe dónde, pasaba entre bocinazos por la carretera principal y desaparecía hacia quién sabe dónde, pero hacia otras ciudades, hacia el mar, trastornando a los chavales y la polvareda. [...]. Sabía que en automóvil se atraviesa una tierra, pero no se la conoce. [...] Hay la misma diferencia que entre ver el agua y zambullirse".
"De mi infancia solo me quedaba el verano. Las calles estrechas que desembocaban por doquier en el campo, de día y de noche, eran las verjas de la vida y del mundo. Gran maravilla si un coche, venido de quién sabe dónde, pasaba entre bocinazos por la carretera principal y desaparecía hacia quién sabe dónde, pero hacia otras ciudades, hacia el mar, trastornando a los chavales y la polvareda. [...]. Sabía que en automóvil se atraviesa una tierra, pero no se la conoce. [...] Hay la misma diferencia que entre ver el agua y zambullirse".
November 12, 2025
Desde ya, una de mis novelas favoritas de Pavese.
April 27, 2026
El libro es entretenido, muy bien narrado. Una buena forma de acercarse a Cesare Pavese
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