The Moon and the Bonfires
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The first English language translation was undertaken by Louise Sinclair in 1952, as The Moon and the Bonfire. A more recent translation by R. W. Flint, published in 2002, uses the arguably more correct translation of The Moon and the Bonfires, taking account of the use of the plural Script error: No such module "Lang". in the original Italian title.[3]
The novel is set in the small town of Santo Stefano Belbo, in Piedmont, north-west Italy (Pavese's real-life birthplace). The protagonist, known only by his nickname of "Script error: No such module "Lang"." ("Eel"), has returned to his home town in the years immediately following the Second World War. He left twenty-five years earlier and had made his fortune in the United States. Returning to his home town, he finds many of the same smells and sights that filled his youth, but he also finds a town and its inhabitants that have been deeply changed by war and by the passage of time.
Awards and honors
In 2003, R.W. Flint's translation won the PEN Translation Prize.[4]
In 2016, The New York Review of Books and The Guardian named The Moon and the Bonfires one of the best books of the year.[5][6]
Adaptation
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See also
References
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- ↑ Koffler, Richard, Review: The Essential Pavese Template:Webarchive, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring, 1969), pp. 286-288.
- ↑ Cesare Pavese Template:Webarchive, Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
- ↑ The Moon and the Bonfires Template:Webarchive, The New York Review of Books.
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