The Dark Heart Of Italy [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Jones, Tobias

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ISBN 10: 0865477248 ISBN 13: 9780865477247

Casa editrice: North Point Pr, 2005

Riassunto

The author describes his shattering experience of moving to Italy only to find his visions of paradise crushed under the reality of a nation gripped by terrorism, political ineptitude, and cultural upheaval. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Tobias Jones studied at Jesus College, Oxford. He was on the staff of the London Review of Books and of The Independent on Sunday before moving, in 1999, to Parma, Italy.

Product Description:

In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. "The Dark Heart of Italy" is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a "brothel"? Most of all, why does one man, Silvio Berlusconi-in the words of a famous song-appear to own everything from Padre Nostro (Our Father) to Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)? The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on aesthetics rather than ethics; a country where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment; a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction.

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• Editore: North Point Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0865477248
• ISBN 13: 9780865477247
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 314