Capri and No Longer Capri - Hardcover

Capria, Raffaele La

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560253487 ISBN 13: 9781560253488

Publisher: Nation Books, 2001

Synopsis

Raffaele La Capria creates a portrait of Capri that begins in the time of Ulysses and moves to our present complex and hectic reality, and composes an elegy for a Nature blasted by human negligence and error. Americans have now been visiting Capri for many years, and La Capria's book will offer much to newcomers to the island that they would not otherwise have at their disposal, for his slim volume is a guidebook of a special kind, something like a novel and a local Italian guide. Capri has had a long history as a place of retreat, of sensual license, and of unparalleled natural beauty. Without running through the usual list of sights, La Capria gives his reader the sensation of having peered beneath each stone, and of giving an appreciation of what such a place has done to others, some of whom, once under Capri's spell, gave their lives over to their dreams.

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Review

"A keening song for Capri ... A luminous island memoir."

Edition details

• Publisher: Nation Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1560253487
• ISBN 13: 9781560253488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 150