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Indlæser... Italian Backgrounds (1905)af Edith Wharton
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Wharton's 1901-04 travels yielded nine ruminations about Italy, its culture, and the art of being a perceptive visitor. Includes "An Alpine Posting-Inn," "A Midsummer Week's Dream," "The Sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps," "What the Hermits Saw," "A Tuscan Shrine," "Sub Umbra Liliorum," "March in Italy," and "Picturesque Milan." No library descriptions found. |
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OPD: 1905
format: 118-page Kindle ebook
acquired: October read: Dec 5-15 time reading: 6:31, 3.3 mpp
rating: 3
genre/style: Travel theme: Wharton
locations: Italy, notably the Italian Alps, Parma, Rome and Venice
about the author: 1862-1937. Born Edith Newbold Jones on West 23rd Street, New York City. Relocated permanently to France after 1911.
This is a travel book where Wharton's lovely prose makes up, to some extent, for a lot of dull observations on landscape, architecture, and art. Ok, I might exaggerate a little. And I should mention that there is wonderful chapter mixed in here where Wharton writes simply on thinking about the lives of those hermits who lived isolated in caves in the Italian alps. As for the rest of the then off-the-beaten path Italy (less off the beaten path today, but still "off" it), well it's mildly interesting, but not great reading. There are hidden gems. And then there is Parma and Caravaggio, Venice and Tiepolo. Rome and ... well, I forgot... I'll leave it there. Know that she expects her reader to know about these artists. She was writing to a classically well-educated and very privileged reader. The word "snob" came up a lot in our Litsy discussions.
This was my first nonfiction by Wharton. I'm not sure it will be my last, but I'm looking forward to going back to Wharton's fiction.
2023
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