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The Leucothea Dialogues
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ISBN10: 1962770370
ISBN13: 9781962770378
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781962770378
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Winner of the 2026 PEN Translation Prize A shifting, primordial work by Cesare Pavese, plumbing the netherworlds of philosophy, myth, human feeling, and mortality Above all [Pavese's novels] are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings . . . Each one of Pavese's novels revolves around a hidden theme, something unsaid which is the real thing he wants to say. -- Italo Calvino
Cesare Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues is peopled with gods, centaurs, clouds, poets, hunters, snakes, and nymphs. These are the beings who spoke to him through the ancient plays and poems he read in primary school. Here they speak again in the twenty-seven dialogues that form the novel. Pavese calls mythology a hothouse of symbols. His hothouse is liveliest at night, in the peculiar clarity of darkness. Pavese's characters are more than characters, they play like the dreams of earliest childhood, they pose questions that seem to travel through the minds of the dead to the minds of the living and back again. Through reeds, shadows, glens, fields of blazing straw, homes and villages on the edges of valleys, and over cliffs, we follow their harried stories. In Minna Zallman Proctor's radiant translation, The Leucothea Dialogues is an expression of an exhilarating intelligence.
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