The Unforgivable: And Other Writings - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cristina Campo, Alex Andriesse (Translator), Kathryn Davis (Introduction by)Publish date:2024-02-06Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681378022ISBN-10:1681378027UPC:9781681378022Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:European, Modern, RhetoricBook Topic:Italian, 20th CenturySize:8.01 x 5.14 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCS9MVTRTQ
The Unforgivable: And Other Writings
Thrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.
Christina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971). The Unforgivable and Other Writings brings together both volumes, along with a selection of essays on literature...
Christina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971). The Unforgivable and Other Writings brings together both volumes, along with a selection of essays on literature...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681378022ISBN-10:1681378027UPC:9781681378022Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:European, Modern, RhetoricBook Topic:Italian, 20th CenturySize:8.01 x 5.14 x 0.37 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCS9MVTRTQ
Cristina Campo (1923-1977) was born in Bologna and brought up in Florence. A congenital heart malformation kept Campo out of school and social life for much of her childhood, forcing her into a reclusion enlivened by her reading. A bona fide autodidact, she had by her teens begun to read deeply in Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English literature. After World War II, Campo moved to Rome,...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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Cristina Campo, Alex Andriesse (Translator), Kathryn Davis (Introduction by)
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