Summary
Cesare Pavese: Lepo leto: novel
"Then the painter told her to stand in the light, and, without letting her out of his sight, he placed the paper over the canvas on the easel and began to draw. In the sky, above the motionless roofs, a yellow cloud floated. Ginia looked at the cloud, and her heart was beating like crazy, she heard Amelia saying something, walking around the room and sighing, but she did not dare to look at her. Amelia asked to see the drawing, she had to close her eyes to get used to the semi-darkness. Then she looked at the drawing timidly, but her face seemed not to be hers, it was asleep, lifeless, with half-opened lips, as if speaking in a dream. The room slowly sank into darkness, and Gini got up and turned to look at a picture with slices of melon that were completely transparent. She noticed a glint of pink light in the picture when she entered the room. Then she realized that one should have the gift of noticing such things when she was in the street, because in the middle of the mud and snow she would suddenly smell the colors and shadows of the sycamore trees. was now alone."
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