A Beautiful Summer
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy modern Italian literature and themes of city and youth
- Readers who prefer mood- and atmosphere-driven writing over strong plot
- Film fans and scholars interested in the relationship between literature and film adaptation
- Advanced readers who want to experience a unified tone within a novella structure
Not a good fit for
- Readers who need a clear main line and a complete ending, and prioritize story
- Readers looking for light entertainment or inspirational content
- Readers with little patience for novellas built mainly on atmosphere and psychological description
Reading tips
- The three novellas can be read in order, or you can read the title piece first and then return to see how the other two echo it.
- While reading, notice how Turin's urban spaces shift with the characters' moods; jot down recurring images as you go.
- After finishing, compare with Antonioni's adaptation The Girlfriends and contrast the literary atmosphere with the film's treatment.
About the publisher
Shanghai Translation Publishing House is a Chinese publisher oriented mainly toward translation and publishing. Its publications cover foreign literature, world classics and classic works, as well as social culture, folk literature and classical poetry. The database contains 2,618 titles, including Never Let Me Go, Les Misérables (2 volumes), Don Quixote (illustrated collector's edition), The Complete Comedies of Molière (4 volumes), The Complete Novels of Kafka (3 volumes), The Collected Works of Dostoevsky (9-volume set), Reason and Persons, and Oedipus Rex (Translation Classics). Its author resources include foreign writers such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Victor Hugo, Cervantes and Molière, as well as translators such as Zheng Kelu, Sun Jiameng, Li Jianwu and Zhang Kun. The publisher has brands such as "Translation Classics Selections" and "Translation Documentary," and emphasizes translated works in foreign literature and the humanities and social sciences, while also publishing bilingual dictionaries and foreign-language educational books. Public information is limited; the above is based on the book information in the database.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 美丽的夏天
- 一
- 二
- 三
- 四
- 五
- 六
- 七
- 八
- 九
- 十
- 十一
- 十二
- 十三
- 十四
- 十五
- 十六
- 十七
- 山上的魔鬼
- 一
- 二
- 三
- 四
- 五
- 六
- 七
- 八
- 九
- 十
- 十一
- 十二
- 十三
- 十四
- 十五
- 十六
- 十七
- 十八
- 十九
- 二十
- 二十一
- 二十二
- 二十三
- 二十四
- 二十五
- 二十六
- 二十七
- 二十八
- 二十九
- 三十
- 在孤单的女人中
- 一
- 二
- 三
- 四
- 五
- 六
- 七
- 八
- 九
- 十
- 十一
- 十二
- 十三
- 十四
- 十五
- 十六
- 十七
- 十八
- 十九
- 二十
- 二十一
- 二十二
- 二十三
- 二十四
- 二十五
- 二十六
- 二十七
- 二十八
- 二十九
- 三十
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About the author
Cesare Pavese is an Italian writer whose name is often associated with the realist and psychological traditions of twentieth-century Italian literature. Public information about him is limited: his dates of birth and death, details of nationality, and educational background are not listed in the database, so this introduction focuses mainly on his works. The database includes his work Beautiful Summer, classified under foreign literature. This work suggests that Pavese's writing often attends to the emotional fluctuations and inner worlds of ordinary people in everyday situations. His tone is restrained and delicate, and he is skilled at presenting characters' loneliness, growth, and search for self-identity through concrete scenes of life. His narrative does not rely on strong dramatic conflict; instead, it accumulates emotional tension through calm narration, allowing readers to perceive characters' situations in subtle details. This style gives his work a distinctive place in Italian literature and offers Chinese readers a noteworthy entry point for understanding twentieth-century Italian fiction.
Chen Ying was born in Shaanxi in 1977. She is a professor of Italian, doctoral supervisor, and head of the Department of Italian at Sichuan International Studies University, and holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Macerata in Italy. Centering on the translation and teaching of Italian literature, she is the Chinese translator of the "Neapolitan Novels" and has translated more than 40 Italian works, ranging from novels and essays to classics. The library holds 36 of her works, including Chinese translations of Fragments, The Story of a New Name, The Long Life of Marianna, The Legend of 1900, and representative works by writers such as Primo Levi and Umberto Eco. She has received the National First Prize for Translation of Less Commonly Taught Languages, the 2020 One-Way Street Translator of the Year award, the 2021 Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Translation Award. Her translations and editorial choices have had a notable influence in the field of foreign literary translation.
