The First World War mobilized millions of soldiers from all social classes and occupations, and artists were no exception. Albert Dalimier, the French Minister of Fine Arts, stated that the artist should be as pugnacious in battle as he is … Read the full article
Flaubert declared of his best-known character, Emma Bovary, that: “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.” While Pavese never explicitly made a similar claim, there are undoubtedly elements of self-portraiture in both Clelia and Rosetta in Among Women Only. Clelia’s return to her … Read the full article
At the beginning of 2019, the EAT–Lancet Commission published Food in the Anthropocene, a consideration of healthy diets from sustainable food systems.1 The authors observed that “A healthy diet should optimize health, defined broadly as being a state of complete … Read the full article
Cesare Pavese’s last novel, Among Women Only (Tra donne sole), is an example of the well-known maxim ‘life imitates art’. Pavese’s diaries, published posthumously after his suicide, showed a man tormented by depression who had considered suicide many times previously. … Read the full article
It has been aptly stated by Terry Pratchett – author of the Discworld novels – that “the baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the Dementia firing range”. The strain … Read the full article
“There is no boon in life more sweet, I say, than when a summer joy holds all the realm, and banqueters sit listening to a harper in a great hall, by rows of tables heaped with bread and roast meat, … Read the full article