Cesare Pavese and Antonio Chiuminatto: Their Correspondence

320 Pages·2007·1.68 MB·English

by  Mark Pietralunga

CESARE PAVESE AND ANTHONY CHIUMINATTO:
THEIR CORRESPONDENCE
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Cesare Pavese and
Anthony Chiuminatto
Their Correspondence
EDITED BY MARK PIETRALUNGA
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
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Toronto Italian Studies
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Pavese, Cesare
Cesare Pavese and Anthony Chiuminatto : their correspondence /
edited by Mark Pietralunga.
(Toronto Italian studies)
ISBN 978-0-8020-9294-6
1. Pavese, Cesare – Correspondence. 2. Chiuminatto, Anthony L.
(Anthony Lawrence), 1904–– Correspondence. 3. Authors, Italian – 20th
century – Correspondence. I. Pietralunga, Mark II. Chiuminatto,
Anthony L. (Anthony Lawrence), 1904– III. Title. IV. Series.
PQ4835.A846Z48 2007 853’.912 C2006-905663-3
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the College
of Arts and Sciences and the Ada Belle Winthrop King Institute of
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario
Arts Council.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its
publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book
Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).
Dedicated to the memory of
Professor Marziano Guglielminetti
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CONTENTS
Editor’s Note vii
Introduction 3
Correspondence 25
Appendix: Chiuminatto’s Explanations of Slang and
Non-Slang Expressions 173
Index 303
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EDITOR’S NOTE
The correspondence between Cesare Pavese and Anthony Chiuminatto
numbers seventy letters between 1929 and 1933. The transcriptions of
Pavese’s letters printed here are drawn from the 1966 Einaudi edition of
the Italian writer’s correspondence and from the handwritten rough
drafts housed at the ‘Guido Gozzano–Cesare Pavese’ Center for the
Study of Piedmontese Literature at the University of Turin. Some dupli-
cates of these letters have found their way to the Einaudi Archives in
Turin, but the collection at the Einaudi Archives includes no letters that
are not already part of the collection at the ‘Guido Gozzano-Cesare
Pavese’ Center. Instead, the transcription of Chiuminatto’s letters are
taken from originals, all typewritten, housed in the Chiuminatto folder
at the ‘Guido Gozzano–Cesare Pavese’ Center.
A valuable part of this correspondence is Chiuminatto’s exhaustive
explanation of slang and idiomatic expressions from the novels of Sher-
wood Anderson (Dark Laughter), Sinclair Lewis (Babbitt and Arrowsmith),
and William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying). I have elected to include this rich
material in its entirety in the appendix of this volume. This section will
be of particular interest to the specialized, bilingual reader.
To preserve both Pavese’s and Chiuminatto’s letter-writing style, I
have attempted to reproduce each letter as exactly as possible. No gram-
matical errors or inadvertent misspellings from Pavese’s letters have
been corrected. In the case of Chiuminatto’s letters, only inadvertent
typographical errors have been corrected. On a few occasions I have
supplied a missing letter or word in brackets. In my annotations to
Chiuminatto’s letters, I have also attempted to identify only those
instances when the underlining of a word or words clearly appeared to
be added by Pavese.