Una bellissima coppia discorde: il carteggio tra Cesare Pavese e Bianca Garufi (1945-1950)

Archival documents are the mosaic of history, and so, too, is this small collection of letters, the first published correspondence between Pavese and a woman.Yet it does not draw the wide lines of history writ large.There is no mention of postbellum struggles in Italy in 1945, nor reference to rubble filled streets, destroyed or occupied buildings, Fascism or the reentry of former Fascists, nor of political battles of succession.It is proof that human relationships continue no matter what the surroundings.The only mention of war themes in the letters concerns the very personal circumstances of little work and lack of money (Bianca), simple logistic difficulties in sending letters and books from or to Rome, travel home (Pavese to Turin) to vote for the Costituente in April 1946, and a spontaneous commentary on Rossellini's film "Città aperta," when it comes out early in 1946.(Pavese: "[I]l clandestino eroe è un merluzzo...possibile che non abbia mai un momento di allegria?... Mi agita proprio il valore espressivo -non quello documentario...." [39]).The dialogue between the two writers concerns their personal world, their craft, or the slightly larger one of Einaudi publishing and the intellectuals engaged in rebuilding contacts with the outside world.There are no rhetorical flourishes about keeping cultural endeavors alive.Although they all are of a similar leftist stuff, there is no talk of politics or survival of a common goal.The detail of their lives (Bianca loses four kilos in a month at a health spa near Genoa; she asks Pavese to bring cigarettes when he comes to visit) or office disagreements (Bianca originally resigns her position at Einaudi because she thinks Natalia Ginzburg does not like her), allows or requires the reader to make the connections.The fabric, which reader and text create, can either be part of the larger picture of Italian intellectual and political history or simply the love story between an older (he is ten years older) employed (he is an important consultant for Einaudi and can distribute translations to young writers), confirmed intellectual and a 27-year-old, who is a Communist (she was involved in the Resistance movement in Rome and is a Party member), sexually liberated (married to a Sicilian man at age nineteen, separated from him, and lived with a comrade from the Resistance movement in Rome), Sicilian woman from an aristocratic family, who was working as a secretary and part-time translator for Einaudi in 1945.The story of the relationship stands on its own.It shows their original understanding of what "us" might mean, if they allowed themselves to be a couple; they talk about love and loving each other even if "l'amore sessuale" is impossible (18), and discuss chapters of the novel that they are writing together (their "romanzo bisessuato," entitled Fuoco grande, Einaudi, 1959, published nine years after Pavese's suicide).The reader comes to know the two through the five-year exchange.It begins with a note from Letojanni (her family palazzo near Taormina) and continues with intensity during her stay at the Arnaldi spa.When she decides to move to Milan (Pavese is in Rome), the tone begins to change.They had agreed that both were free to do what they like (42) but were still living the blush of their intimacy in

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