“To know the world one must construct it.”

As a stand alone communication or declaration, there is insufficient support structure to merit a desired outcome, I'm sure the author was striving for. As a stand alone statement, it probably rates a thumbs down. I think more in context, one does not have to construct something to know it.

A brief study of Pavese would show he speaks as a communist, or perhaps it is the Roman within. 

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