{"product_id":"9781681378787","title":"Hard Labor","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePavese, Cesare; Arrowsmith, William; Olson, Ted\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNYRB Poets\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark translation of passionate, fiercely intelligent poetry about coming of age by one of the most influential Italian writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the spring of 1935, the young Cesare Pavese was sentenced, for \"antifascist activities,\" to three years of detention in a small seaside village in Calabria. Far away from his familiar life in the city of Turin and forced to rely on his own resources, he began to write poems of tremendous power, in terse lines and unsentimental language, giving voice to country people and hard country lives untainted by the propaganda of Fascism. \"When I found my friends, I found my real home— \/ land so worthless a man's got a perfect right \/ to do absolutely nothing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough Pavese is now most famous for his fiction, he was a poet first of all, and \u003ci\u003eHard Labor \u003c\/i\u003ewas the work for which he hoped to be remembered. It is a book, he once said, \"that might have saved a generation.\" William Arrowsmith's translations—with their strong lines and bold American diction—marvelously convey the spirit and complex vitality of the original.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44876423266559,"sku":"9781681378787","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781681378787_s600x595.jpg?v=1775592764","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781681378787","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}