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Cesare Pavese is the most important founder of modern Italian literature. He is the author of numerous novels, short stories and essays. He wrote his first poems in the thirties and the last in the spring of 1950.

It is in the poems under the title LA TERRA E LA MORTE by Cesare Pavese about love poems. The etchings, Horst Antes to the texts composed may at first sight with these non-compliant to go. They remain in their own  form of loneliness.

Cesare Pavese, wrote the poems between 27 October and 3 December 1945.

Poetry these basic words are without distortion or the loss of their entire hard clarity into German. La morte, il sangue or another: la terra, in Italy - as ever around the Mediterranean - none of wealth and precision. The modern poet uses the word deliberately, but with the naivety of truthfulness, as the poet and philosopher Lucretius Carus (also Lukrez) 96? - 55? before Christ and Horatius Flaccus (also Horace), 65 to 8 before Christ. The German language has lost the naivety. A distorted word cannot give back, land and soil, "the land" in Pavese hot - and what they meant in the German once. 

But the images are still alive. The seriousness and the pain end, the nature of the poet, from the sea to speak from the standpoint of the embrace, from walking in the wind, this also knows Horst Antes, as he also, in the gestures, in the encounter, the togetherness of the figures the Bright appear: "Sei e la luce ilmattino / You are the light and enlightenment”. In its absolute liability is the relationship of texts and images. The images come from our country and get near what our language still fails to Pavese. Hans Terwege