A Literary Tour of Italy - Hardcover

Parks, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846883520 ISBN 13: 9781846883521

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

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 writing 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 Eco and Saviano, from the Stil Novo to the Divisionismo, 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. .

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Review:

'It is an immensely learned, elegantly written rehearsal of the significance of 23 Italian writers, from Dante in the 13th century to Antonio Tabucchi in our own, and as such it amounts I think to an assessment of the Italian sensibility as a whole. Nobody is better qualified than Tim Parks to guide us through such an experience... He can be as entertaining as he is scholarly, and he is evidently profoundly concerned with the relationship everywhere between art and life.' --The Spectator

'There are many ways of touring the land that Italians, following Dante, call il bel paese, and Parks is as perceptive a guide as could be wished' --Times Literary Supplement

'Tim Park's s new volume of essays goes where it is inaccessible to the casual tourist, deep into the literature' --The Independent

About the Author:

Tim Parks is the author of fourteen novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, Sex Is Forbidden and, most recently, Painting Death, all of them translated into many languages. As well as being a novelist and the author of several works of non-fiction, Tim is the acclaimed translator of books by Moravia, Calvino, Machiavelli and other Italian writers. He's a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His last book, Italian Ways was published by Harvill Secker.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1846883520
• ISBN 13: 9781846883521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288