A Literary Tour of Italy
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Alma · Ebook · November 29, 2016
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Tim Parks’s essays map Italian literature across centuries, from Boccaccio and Machiavelli to Moravia and Tabucchi.
- Themes
- Italian literature, Italian culture, Literary history
- Genres
- Italian Literary Criticism, Literary Travel, Essay Collections
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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.
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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.
Italy on the Page
Tim Parks’s essays map Italian literature across centuries, from Boccaccio and Machiavelli to Moravia and Tabucchi.
Come here for
- A guided view of Italy’s literary landscape and intellectual movements
- Essays that connect literature with the culture of the Bel Paese
Expect
- A selection of Parks’s essays on Italian literature
- A broad sweep from the Stil Novo to Divisionism
Where it sits
| Italian Literary Criticism | 92% |
|---|---|
| Literary Travel | 48% |
| Essay Collections | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Italian Literary Collections
- Essay Collections
- Italian Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Tim Parks
- Publisher
- Alma
- Published
- November 29, 2016
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Italian literature · Italian culture · Literary history
- Reading lane
- Italian Literary Collections