{"product_id":"the-leucothea-dialogues-paperback","title":"The Leucothea Dialogues - 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\u003eMinna Zallman Proctor\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA shifting, primordial work by Cesare Pavese, plumbing the netherworlds of philosophy, myth, human feeling, and mortality \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cesare Pavese's \u003ci\u003eThe Leucothea Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e 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 the minds of the living and back again. Through reeds, shadows, glens, fields of blazing straw, homes and villages on the edges of valleys, and over cliffs, we follow their harried stories. In Minna Zallman Proctor's radiant translation, \u003ci\u003eThe Leucothea Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e is an expression of an exhilarating intelligence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCesare Pavese\u003c\/b\u003e (1908-1950) was born in the countryside near Turin in northern Italy. His translations of Hermann Melville, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Daniel Defoe influenced his contemporaries, and the wider reading public. Pavese also worked at the Turin publisher Einaudi, where he went on to become the editorial director. He wrote poetry, essays and fiction, and kept diaries. In 1950, Pavese won the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious award for literature, for \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Bonfires\u003c\/i\u003e. Later the same year, he committed suicide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinna Zallman Proctor\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eLandslide: True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review.\u003c\/i\u003e Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. Proctor's translation of \u003ci\u003eLove in Vain, Selected Stories of Federigo Tozzi\u003c\/i\u003e won the PEN Poggioli Prize. Her translations include Fleur Jaeggy's \u003ci\u003eThese Possible Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, Natalia Ginzburg's \u003ci\u003eHappiness, as Such\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruno Arpaia's \u003ci\u003eThe Angel of History\u003c\/i\u003e, and essays by Umberto Eco, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44402802524262,"sku":"9781962770378","price":29.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/G_TKeYcTTX9781962770378.webp?v=1769687476","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-leucothea-dialogues-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}