Le carte del primo Lavorare stanca

This thesis studies and describes the manuscripts related to the first edition of Lavorare stanca, which show the inception and the development of the poems contained in the collection, highlighting the substantial alterations made by the poet and, at times, the sudden changes of plan. A transcript is presented for each manuscript, showing the variations and how they are depicted in the document. We then examine the methodologies for the handling of authorial texts of Italian authorial philology and French genetic criticism, which were used in the selection of the type of edition and also for the critical analysis of the editorial documents for the first poem of the collection: I mari del Sud. This study is divided in two parts: the first follows the Italian methodology, more focused on micro-variations, while the second part follows a genetic methodology, more focused on macrovariations. We demonstrate that the two approaches are compatible and complementary. Finally, the perspective is widened again to the development of the collection Lavorare stanca. We study the authorial redactions of the table of contents and the disposition of the poems in the print drafts and in the first edition. We also examine the cancelled attempts in creating thematic sections in the collection, related to the observations of Pavese about the "formacanzoniere" as they appear in his notes, secretum professionale, Il mestiere di vivere and in the essays collected in the appendix to the second edition.