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Pavese, Cesare
(1908–1950) Italian writer. Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet and novelist. Pavese also translated the writings of numerous Americans into Italian and wrote literary criticism.
The New York Review of Books: The Outsider's Art
Tim Parks writes: "On August 26, 1950, at the age of forty-two, Pavese killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills in a hotel room not far from his apartment in Turin. Much of his work can be read as an attempt to justify that decision or, rather, to establish a vision where justification is unnecessary, where suicide is destiny."