Original, rare edition. Pavese, in his introduction to the work, says that to understand the title of the collection one should have read I Sansossi (Piedmontese spelling for "sans-souci") by Augusto Monti, Pavese's high school teacher and his first literature teacher and friend. Monti contrasted the virtue of the Piedmontese Sansossi (made up of lightheartedness and youthful recklessness) with the virtue of the stoic, hard-working and taciturn Piedmontese. Even the first Pavese (or perhaps all of Pavese) moves between those two terms; let's not forget that one of its first authors was Walt Whitman, an exalter of both work and the vagabond life. The title Worker tired will be Pavese's version of Augusto Monti's (and Whitman's) antithesis, but with the yearning of those who do not integrate: boy in the world of adults, without a job in the world of those who work, without a woman in the world of love and families, without weapons in the world of bloody political struggles and civil duties. The poems in the collection, unique and atypical in the contemporary poetic repertoire, open onto a new narrative mode, that of the poem-story, starting a new experimentation both from a technical and metric point of view. The inspiration for the use of a very rhythmic verse of thirteen or sixteen syllables was offered to him in part by the colloquial verse of the crepusculars and by Whitman's free verse, with an extremely personal and innovative solution. The manuscript of 41 poems was delivered to the publisher in 1933. Gambetti-Vezzosi, p.660.