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'The Moon and the Bonfires' is an English translation of the novel 'La Luna e i Fal', by the Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese. The book was written in Italian in 1949.Koffler, Richard, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1344943 Review: The Essential Pavese], Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Spring, 1969), pp. 286-288. It is considered Pavese's best novel.[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/447291/Cesare-Pavese Cesare Pavese], Encyclopdia Britannica Online.
The first English language translation was undertaken by Louise Sinclair in 1952. 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 'i Fal' in the original Italian title.[http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?product_id=882 The Moon and the Bonfires], The New York Review of Books.
The novel is set in the small town of Santo Stefano Belbo, in Piedmont, north-west Italy. The protagonist, known only by his nickname of 'Anguilla' (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.
It was one of two Pavese novels (the other being 'Dialoghi con Leuc') to be adapted by Danile Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub as part of their 1979 film 'From the Clouds to the Resistance'.
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Category:1949 novels
Category:20th-century Italian novels
Category:Novels set in Italy
Category:Piedmont
Category:Giulio Einaudi Editore books
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