THE CONTRAST BETWEEN CITY AND VILLAGE, CHILD AND ADULT, ADOLESCENCE AND VIRILITY, INFANTILITY AND MATURITY IN CESARE PAVESE

Cesare Pavese was a fabulous modern Italian writer, critical scholar and translator of American literature. The analyzed story is titled "The City" and is lined with autobiographical elements where we find a conception of the unhappy, sad life filled with loneliness and disappointment. The unsuitability of the main character, his immaturity, the contrast between the city and the village, the peasant's reluctance in the city who tries to observe the streets, to know the city with his eyes and mind, but without being seen by others, is described with the most loved method of the writer, with that of symbolic realism. This method consists of filtering reality through conscious and drawing existential conclusions of the main character in general. The storytelling style has special features, tinted with lyricism and enriched with words and metaphorical images.