The Leucothea Dialogues | 916.48 KB
Title: The Leucothea Dialogues
Author: Cesare Pavese, Minna Zallman Proctor
Category: Fiction & Literature, Classics
Language: English | 183 Pages | ISBN: 1962770370
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…
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