Bibliograph

A literary tour of Italy, Tim Parks

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A literary tour of Italy, Tim Parks

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A literary tour of Italy

Oclc number

972173372

Responsibility statement

Tim Parks

Summary

LITERARY ESSAYS. 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

Table Of Contents

Hell and back / Dante -- Famous women / Giovanni Boccaccio -- True scandal / Niccolo Macjiavelli -- Surviving Giiacomo / Giacomo Leopardi -- Bloody glamour / Giuseppe Mazzini -- Invention of a hero / Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Knock on wood / Carlo Collodi -- Confessions of a n Italian / Ippolito Nievo -- A chorus of cruelty / Giovanni Verga -- Throwing light on Italian identity / Divisionism -- The illusionist / Benito Mussolini -- Fascist work / Mario Sironi -- Che pasticcio! / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- A prisoner's dream / Eugenio Montale -- The horros of war / Curzio Malaparte -- After the earthquake / Ignazio Silone -- The enchanted fort / Dino Buzzati -- The beautiful Antonio / Vitaliano Brancati -- The conformist and comtempt revisited / Alberto Moravia -- The outsider's art / Cesare Pavese -- The dark in the piazza / Elsa Morante -- The garden of the Finzi-Continis / Giorgio Bassani -- Family sayings / Natalia Ginzburg -- The Italian pessoa / Antonio Tabucchi

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