Le peuple italien vu par un intellectuel (dés)engagé

Abstract

This contribution is offering a temporary analysis of the people and nation concept as it was designed at a specific time of the 20th century by one of the most emblematic and controversial intellectuals of the cultural history of modern Italy. Cesare Pavese was a left-wing writer that many studies have criticized for a long time as a cultural antifascist militant who was very much involved during and after the end of the Mussolinian regime.However, his reputation has been damaged by the publishing of a posthumous secret book-note expressing many thoughts of political philosophy. These assertions were considered as obviously philo-fascist and brought about a debate among the specialists and the people in general. Pavese’s sense and value of those meditations can been perfectly understood and explained through his way of translating and how he was able to master Nietzsche’s works between 1940 and 1945.

Keywords

• people
• Pavese
• Nietzsche
• politics
• morals
• fascism