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
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