Dialogues with Leuco - Cesare Pavese

Dialogues with Leucò by Cesare Pavese, translated by William Arrowsmith and D. S. Carne-Ross / 156-page paperback / ISBN 9781955190770 / published by Sublunary Editions *** A series of philosophical dialogues between figures of Greek mythology, Dialogues with Leucò is, as its author called it, "a conversation between divinity and humanity". One of Pavese's final books, it was the one he was arguably most proud of, carrying a copy on the day he died from suicide in August 1950. This is a new edition of the 1965 translation of William Arrowsmith—translator of Aristophanes, Euripides, Eugenio Montale, and others—and Donald Carne-Ross, a noted professor of Classics, with whom Arrowsmith founded the National Translation Center at Austin in 1965. Cesar Pavese (1908 – 1950) was an Italian writer of poems, short stories, and novels, as well as being known for the diary he kept between 1935 and 1950. He was an avowed anti-fascist during WWII, avoiding the conflict altogether and joining the Ita