Title:
A literary tour of Italy
Author:
Edition:
Mass-market edition.
Publication Date:
2015
2016
Publication Information:
Richmond, [England] : Alma Books, 2015.
©2016
Physical Description:
x, 387 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781846883910
Abstract:
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks -- who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of his best essays on the literature of his adopted country. From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy.
General Note:
Originally published: 2015.
Contents:
Dante: Hell and back -- Giovanni Boccaccio: Famous women -- Niccolò Machiavelli: True scandal -- Giacomo Leopardi: Surviving Giacomo -- Giuseppe Mazzini: Bloody glamour -- Giuseppe Garibaldi: Invention of a hero -- Carlo Collodi: Knock on wood -- Ippolito Nievo: Confessions of an Italian -- Giovanni Verga: A chorus of cruelty -- Divisonism: Throwing light on Italian identity -- Benito Mussolini: the illusionist -- Mario Sironi: Fascist work -- Carlo Emilio Gadda: Che pasticcio! -- Eugenio Montale: A prisoner's dream -- Curzio Malaparte: The horros of war -- Ignazio Silone: After the earthquake -- Dino Buzzati: The enchanted fort -- Vitaliano Brancati: The beautiful Antonio -- Alberto Moravia: The Conformist and Contempe revisited -- Cesare Pavese: The outsider's art -- Elsa Morante: The dark in the piazza -- Giorgio Bassani: The garden of the Finzi-Continis -- Natalia Ginzburg: Family sayings -- Antonion Tabucchi: The Italian Pessoa.
Language:
English
