Pavese

The Italian poet Cesare Pavese, obsessed with suicide for most of his life, never attained a satisfying, sustaining relationship with a woman, though he had many lovers.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

The Italian poet Cesare Pavese, obsessed with suicide for most of his life, never attained a satisfying, sustaining relationship with a woman, though he had many lovers.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

Although brief, his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, Norberto Bobbio, and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers.

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In a clairvoyant essay, Pavese praised the young writer as a “squirrel of the pen” who “climbed into the trees, more for fun than fear, to observe partisan life as a fable of the forest”.

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Concealing his literary ambitions to please his family, he passed four exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Heisenberg, and Einstein on physics.

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Remember Pavese who killed himself after he realized he could no longer write?

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"With the entire world and their grandmothers looking for a yuan revaluation and continued inflation, I'm willing to a put a few chips on the table to wager that something in China may break along the way," hurting the yuan, said Christopher Pavese , Broyhill's chief investment officer.

Investors Hazard Bold Bet on Yuan Gregory Zuckerman 2011

Christopher Pavese, chief investment officer at Broyhill Asset Management, suggests PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund , an ETF that in theory could do well if the yuan falls.

Betting Against China By Gregory Zuckerman 2011

Lottomatica posted strong second-quarter earnings in July, with revenue surging in its home market despite the country's debt problems, as Italians seemed to seize on the idea of Italian novelist Cesare Pavese that in hard times and tough labor markets, lotteries offer the only realistic way to get rich.

In Tough Times, Investors Bet on Sin Katarina Gustafsson 2011

His first novel, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Nest of Spiders) written with valuable editorial advice from Pavese, won the Premio Riccione on publication in 1947.

italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009