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Original Title:	La luna e i falò
ISBN:	0720611199 (ISBN13: 9780720611199)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Santo Stefano Belbo(Italy) Piedmont(Italy)
Literary Awards:	PEN Translation Prize for R.W. Flint (2003)

The Moon and the Bonfire

Cesare Pavese

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 6546 Users | 321 Reviews

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Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He looks at the lives and sometimes violent fates of the villagers he has known since childhood, seeing the poverty, ignorance, or indifference that binds them to the hills and valleys against the beauty of the landscape and the rhythm of the seasons. With stark realism and muted compassion, Pavese weaves separate strands of narrative together, bringing them to a stark and poignant climax.

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Title	:	The Moon and the Bonfire
Author	:	Cesare Pavese
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	2002 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1950)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy

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Ratings: 3.8 From 6546 Users | 321 Reviews

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Pavese is an explicator of the Italian countryside--excellent if you are the Italian countryside, and if not, not.

I found this curiously unsatisfying. While it was clearly attempting to work on more than one level, the only level which came across effectively for me was the obvious one of description of a period in Italian history and the way life was for the people in this poor mountainous southern area of Italy. I was not swept away by the imagery and the emotional drama, and was left with a strangely unaffecting depiction of a way of life, which was sad and despairing but somehow lacked resonance as

A lovely and atmospheric book. It's not really plotless but I think the plot is somewhat beside the point. It's more about evoking the memories of youth and the bittersweetness of looking back on them after things have changed. The descriptions of the countryside, the farm, the river, the town are so vivid they had me looking on Google maps to see if they were real. They all are and you can even visit the places that inspired them and you could even chat with Nuto until he died in 1990. I

[image error] imported:The Moon And The Bonfire by Cesare Pavesetranslationpaperitalianspringtbrshortie (189 pages with a biggish font - bargain)one pennypecuniarily bereft circumstancesTranslated from the Italian by Louise SinclairOpening - There is a reason why I came back to this place - came back here instead of to Canelli, Bararesco or Alba. It is almost certain that I was not born here; where I was born I don't know.

Pavese's final novel, which was published in 1950 (the same year he took his own life), is a moving and atmospheric meditation on loss and ageing, and how the simplicity and innocence of childhood years lived is eventually crushed by the passage of time. Told in a spare prose, and filled moments of such stark beauty, Pavese again utilises his own knowledge and experiences of the northern Italian countryside to write a haunting tale in which the narrator, after years spent in America, returns to

Usually I'm very fond of meditations on loss and ageing but the high hopes I had for this one were unfulfilled. For one thing, the narrator is less interesting than many other characters in the book, but you are stuck with him throughout the book. Maybe it's because at the same time I am reading "Stone Upon Stone" by Wiesław Myśliwski, another book on growing up in a rural area, but it's a more vivid book, funny, humane and cruel, not so cold and distant as "The moon and the bonfire". If you

I can't now remember when I finished this. I'm intrigued as to what Pavese's other work is like, having read this. Anyway, just writing some cursory remarks as I shelve this. I doubt I'll ever catch up on my reviews here somehow.