{"product_id":"hard-labor-paperback","title":"Hard Labor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCesare Pavese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Arrowsmith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eTed Olson\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark translation of passionate, fiercely intelligent poetry about coming of age by one of the most influential Italian writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the spring of 1935, the young Cesare Pavese was sentenced, for \"antifascist activities,\" to three years of detention in a small seaside village in Calabria. Far away from his familiar life in the city of Turin and forced to rely on his own resources, he began to write poems of tremendous power, in terse lines and unsentimental language, giving voice to country people and hard country lives untainted by the propaganda of Fascism. \"When I found my friends, I found my real home-- \/ land so worthless a man's got a perfect right \/ to do absolutely nothing.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough Pavese is now most famous for his fiction, he was a poet first of all, and \u003ci\u003eHard Labor \u003c\/i\u003ewas the work for which he hoped to be remembered. It is a book, he once said, \"that might have saved a generation.\" William Arrowsmith's translations--with their strong lines and bold American diction--marvelously convey the spirit and complex vitality of the original.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCesare Pavese \u003c\/b\u003e(1908-1950) was born on his family's vacation farm in the country outside of Turin in northern Italy. He graduated from the University of Turin, where he wrote a thesis on Walt Whitman, beginning a continuing engagement with English-language literature that was to lead to his influential translations of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Three Lives, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMoll Flanders, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other works. Briefly exiled by the Fascist regime to Calabria in 1935, Pavese returned to Turin to work for the new publishing house of Giulio Einaudi, where he eventually became the editorial director. In 1936 he published his first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eLavorare stanca \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eHard Labor\u003c\/i\u003e), and then turned to writing novels and short stories. Pavese won the Strega Prize for fiction, Italy's most prestigious award, for \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Bonfires \u003c\/i\u003ein 1950. Later the same year, after a brief affair with an American actress, he committed suicide. Pavese's posthumous publications include his celebrated diaries, essays on American literature, and a second collection of poems, entitled \u003ci\u003eVerrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eDeath Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Arrowsmith\u003c\/b\u003e (1924-1992) was born in Orange, New Jersey, and raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended Princeton and Oxford, becoming an accomplished writer, editor, and classicist. He translated ancient works (Aristophanes, Euripides, Petronius) as well as modern ones--most notably Eugenio Montale, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Cesare Pavese. He was awarded the National Book Award for his translation of \u003ci\u003eHard Labor.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTed Olson \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor, poet, editor, cultural historian, record producer, musician, and photographer. A nine-time Grammy nominee as a music historian, he has edited volumes of literary work by Sarah Orne Jewett, Sherwood Anderson, and James Still. Olson is also the author of three poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eBreathing in Darkness \u003c\/i\u003e(2006), \u003ci\u003eRevelations \u003c\/i\u003e(2012), and \u003ci\u003eBlue Moon \u003c\/i\u003e(2025).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353424249081,"sku":"9781681378787","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/9gp78xZCtw9781681378787.webp?v=1769824783","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hard-labor-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}