De duivel op de heuvels

Samenvatting

The Devil in the Hills is the most personal of Pavese’s novels, an elegiac celebration of lost youth set in the landscape of his own boyhood, the hills, vineyards and villages of Piedmont. Three young men spend away their sun-drenched summer talking, drinking — rarely sleeping. It is, one senses, the last summer that they will be able to indulge such idle pleasures. And in view of its transcience, the prolonged leisure of their new, wealthy acquaintance Poli fascinates them.