“Tre Donne Sole: Pavese’s Women in Search of a Modern Identity” analyzes the representation of women in three of Cesare Pavese’s works: “Pensieri di Dina,” La bella estate, and Tra donne sole. This article argues that the depiction of women and gender in these texts is more modern and complex than one might originally suspect considering Pavese’s reputation as a misogynist and the essentialist claims that appear throughout his work.

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• Giufre, S., (2025), "Tre donne sole: Pavese’s Women in Search of a Modern Identity", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Giufre, Stacy. "Tre donne sole: Pavese’s Women in Search of a Modern Identity." Quaderni d'italianistica 34 (1): 2013. 153-167. DOI: 10.33137/q.i..v34i1.19877. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Quaderni d'italianistica. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Quaderni d'italianistica under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.