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CONTEXT: John Taylor, Reading Cesare Pavese |
 | | Early on, Pavese alludes to this troubled relationship between living and writing by means of a subtitle, Secretum professionale, which covers four months during the first two years (1935-1936) that he records in his diary. |
 | | It seems that Pavese was driven by a perpetually adolescent romanticism with respect to women, as well as, in contrast, by an amorous philosophy so inflexibly pessimistic that any enduring partnership was excluded in advance. |
 | | Not surprisingly, Pavese elucidated, both for himself and more generally as a critic, the "static essentials" of a novel, as they are incarnated in a hero who remains the same from the beginning to the end. |
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