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Zijn gedichten zijn opmerkelijk actueel en overbruggen met gemak de zeven eeuwen die ons van hem scheiden

Hard Labor Vandaag vrij distracted when they should beCesare Pavese (trans. William Arrowsmith) In 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