Spoon River
Her starting-step into literature was due to her request to understand the difference between original and translated texts and Cesare Pavese gave her both texts of Spoon River
"Ero una ragazza quando ho letto per la prima volta Spoon River: me l'aveva portata Cesare Pavese, una mattina che gli avevo chiesto che differenza c'รจ tra la letteratura americana e quella inglese". "I was just a kid when I read Spoon River for the first time: Cesare Pavese brought it to me, one morning when I had asked him what was the difference between American and English literature."(from Italian Wiki)
In other citations there's something spoken about English language and translated texts
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