Cesare Pavese Quotes
Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
Pavese, Cesare. The Moon and the Bonfires. Translated by R. W. Flint, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Saloth Sar Pol Pot. He exterminated over 1 million of his own people who were obstacles to his idea that all people should live in villages. Victims included people who were city residents, intellectuals which meant anyone with an education, and even people who wore glasses were killed.
One of Germany's oldest universities had organized a book burning.
This was three weeks after the coup that began the Dirty War that ended with tens of thousands of Argentines tortured and murdered.
Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist