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Original Title:	La luna e i falò
ISBN:	0720611199 (ISBN13: 9780720611199)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Santo Stefano Belbo(Italy) Piedmont(Italy)
Literary Awards:	PEN Translation Prize for R.W. Flint (2003)

The Moon and the Bonfire

Cesare Pavese

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 6546 Users | 321 Reviews

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Title	:	The Moon and the Bonfire
Author	:	Cesare Pavese
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	2002 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1950)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Italian Literature. Cultural. Italy

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Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He looks at the lives and sometimes violent fates of the villagers he has known since childhood, seeing the poverty, ignorance, or indifference that binds them to the hills and valleys against the beauty of the landscape and the rhythm of the seasons. With stark realism and muted compassion, Pavese weaves separate strands of narrative together, bringing them to a stark and poignant climax.

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Ratings: 3.8 From 6546 Users | 321 Reviews

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*2.5*The only things I liked about this book were the nostalgic feelings and all the talk about what the village means to the protagonist. Other than that this book didn't really spike my interest. Not a lot happened in it and the things that happened were just there. I didn't really care about the people he knew when he was young so I think that's the reason why I couldn't truly appreciate the story.

The narrator, Anguilla, a disaffected and diffident middle-aged man, returns to Piedmont from California, as he finds the American he so often dreamed of as the pathway of freedom from his stifling life in Italy, is nothing but a land bereft of meaning and more importantly, bereft of memories which, for the narrator, are the very things which define us. Indeed the whole novel reads as a long. almost continuous recherche; in a kind of reversal of Proust, although the narrator recognises and

Usually I'm very fond of meditations on loss and ageing but the high hopes I had for this one were unfulfilled. For one thing, the narrator is less interesting than many other characters in the book, but you are stuck with him throughout the book. Maybe it's because at the same time I am reading "Stone Upon Stone" by Wiesław Myśliwski, another book on growing up in a rural area, but it's a more vivid book, funny, humane and cruel, not so cold and distant as "The moon and the bonfire". If you

I found Cesare Pavese's "The Moon and the Bonfire" to be too slow moving and consequently not terribly interesting. Every time I picked it up, I completely forgot what the book was about until I started reading again-- which doesn't bode all that well for the memorability of the book a year or two from now.The book is about a poor Italian who immigrated to America, then returns to his roots and reminisces about the events of his childhood. This is an okay work, but not something that really drew

Cesare Pavese offers us, as a literary testament, this text, quite close to an autobiography. (A few months later, the author was going to commit suicide.)The narrator, born of nothing to public assistance, grew up without love in a very poor peasant family of the Italian Piedmont, who took care of him simply to reach social assistance. After twenty years spent outside this childhood world, after having made, in a way, "fortune" in the United States and in Genoa, the narrator returns, in search



A gently flowing story of a successful man who returns to the village where he was raised after many years abroad. Anguilla had always been an outsider, never really belonging. When he returned to the village he began to understand that nothing stays the same.Quite a bleak and melancholic story as Anguilla learns the fate of the village inhabitants over the intervening years.Well written, descriptive, introspective. From the Boxall 1000 list.