Italian Carousel. Scenes of Internal Exile. (Photographs by Gusov).

NAVROZOV, Andrei.:

ISBN 10: 0903696436 / ISBN 13: 9780903696432

Published by Oxted: Hurtwood Press, 2002

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"Andrei Navrozov has described himself as a political refugee from Russia, a cultural refugee from America, and a gastronomic refugee from Britain. Yet the theme of his book is altogether less flippant: where in the homogenizing and modernizing Europe would the hardened individualist find a last refuge? The answer to that question takes the reader on an uncompromising, occasionally eccentric but deeply personal and always entertaining travelogue with the author on his first day in Rome to his last night at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, and through a number of Italian cities, with sidelong glances at 70s Moscow, 80s New York, and 90s London. All of which leads him to "home" and the end of his flight from social progress: Palermo. Italy." (googlebooks). 29cms x 23.5cms. Pp.187, many black & white photographs by Gusov throughout. Grey marl cloth, printed grey tissue dustwrapper has a couple of minor white spots. VG/VG. Seller Inventory # 45113

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Title: Italian Carousel. Scenes of Internal Exile. ...

Publisher: Oxted: Hurtwood Press

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis:

Unlike the myriad English-speaking itinerants flocking to the Continent since young Wordsworth travelled among unknown men, Andrei Navrozov writes of people he knows intimately and of social situations he has come to understand from within. Based in Italy since 1997, now with residences in both Venice and Palermo, he has on occasion described himself as a political refugee from Russia, a cultural refugee from America and a gastronomic refugee from Britain. Yet the theme of Italian Carousel is altogether less flippant: where in the homogenising and modernising Europe asks Navrozov would the hardened individualist find a last refuge? His answer is Italy or, more specifically, Palermo, where for the moment his flight from social progress ends.

That answer takes the reader in an uncompromising, occasionally eccentric but deeply personal and always entertaining travelogue from the author s first day in Rome to his last night at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, through Monte Argentario, Florence and the Maremma on to Venice and the Veneto and finally to the wilds of Sicily, almost in every case with a sidelong glance at the Moscow of the 1970s, the New York of the 1980s and the London of the 1990s that he has left behind. To each of these destinations he is accompanied by his longtime friend and London gambling companion whom he identifies only by surname: Gusov, a Russian photographer whose last published portfolio was said by The British Journal of Photography to capture the essence of life. Here, rather in the manner of Phiz assisting Dickens, he has produced a collection of fifty arresting images to illustrate the author s flight from progress in Italian Carousel which masterfully serve to give another dimension to the author s ideas, arguments and impressions of the places evoked in this original book.