num_pages: 201
description: A series of dialogues between mythological figures, treating the question of human destiny as the personal content of myths. In his foreword, Pavese elaborates on his method in the Dialogues: "What is more acutely disturbing than to see familiar scenes troubled into new life? . . . A true revelation, I am convinced, can only emerge from stubborn concentration on a single problem. I have nothing in common with experimentalists, adventurers, with those who travel in strange regions. The surest, and the quickest, way for us to arouse the sense of wonder is to stare, unafraid, at a single object. Suddenly—miraculously—it will look like something we have never seen before."
language: English
title: Dialogues with Leucò
titlecomplete: Dialogues with Leucò
characters: Demeter (Goddess), Calypso (Greek Mythology), Tiresias, Castor, Chimera (mythology), Jason (Argonaut), Althaea, Britomartis, Oedipus, Sarpedon (King of Lycia), Sappho of Lesbos, Hermes, Theseus (mythology), Eros, Bellerophon, Prometheus (mythology), Ariadne (mythology), Ixion, Thanatos (Greek mythology), Hyacinthus (mythology), Actaeon, Helen of Troy, Daphne (mythology), Sisyphus, Glaucus, Orpheus, Chiron, Endymion (mythology), Pollux, Meleager, Circe, Diana (goddess), Achilles, Patroclus, Coronis (mythology), Hippolochus, Leucothea, Asclepius, Mnemosyne, Heracles, Dionysus (mythology)
genres: Italian Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Italy, Short Stories, Greek Mythology, Literature, Poetry, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 2310
publisher: Eridanos Press