Before the Rooster Crows
25.00 GEL
- Author: Cesare pavese
- Year of publication: 2026
- Translator: Rosa Odishvili
- Page quantity: 328
- Cover designer / Illustrator: Eka Chachkhiani
- Language: Georgian
- Category: FICTION
- ISBN: 978 9941790461
Before the Rooster Crows is one of the most candid and poignant autobiographical collections by Cesare Pavese, a leading figure of Italian Neorealism. The book’s title alludes to the biblical themes of betrayal and repentance and brings together two novellas: The Prison and The House on the Hill. Political exile under Fascism, the chaos of the Second World War, a bomb-ravaged Turin, and an intellectual seeking refuge on a hill from the horrors of war and the burden of historical responsibility form the backdrop to this work. While people are dying all around him, the protagonist remains trapped in loneliness and passivity. This is a book about human frailty, existential isolation, and the moral choices that history confronts each of us with.