Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du Monde entier », (February 8) 1965.
1 vol. (145 x 215 mm) of 232 p. and [2] f. In wrappers, uncut.
First edition of the French translation by Michel Arnaud.
One of 51 deluxe copies on vélin pur fil (no. 42).
One of 51 deluxe copies on vélin pur fil (no. 42).
La Plage, written between 1940 and January 1941 and published the following year, was Cesare Pavese’s third book; he would publish six more before the summer of 1950, when he took his own life. The two novels are translated and gathered together for their French edition: they are united by the same inner substance, that of moral solitude and the difficulty of being. La Lune et les Feux (The Moon and the Bonfires) was published in Italy in 1950, a few months before the writer’s suicide, and awarded the Strega Prize.
This last great novel expands his intimate experience into a broader meditation on belonging, memory and exile; a testamentary fresco of his native land, marked by violence and war under fascism.
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