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The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy (Pushk... by Antal Szerb Paperback / softback
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- ISBN
- 1782270531
- EAN
- 9781782270539
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy (Pushkin Collection)
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- Antal Szerb
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
1782270531
ISBN-13
9781782270539
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172439998
Product Key Features
Book Title
Third Tower : Journeys in Italy
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Italy, Personal Memoirs, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Pushkin Collection
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Item Length
6.5 in
Item Width
4.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Translated by Len Rix, this slim, elegant volume traces Szerb's farewell journey to his beloved Italy. . . The prose is intimate and disarming. . . Szerb deftly weaves Italy's timeless allure ("everything there is so old") with observations on its contemporary fever." -- Publishers Weekly, "Translated by Len Rix, this slim, elegant volume traces Szerb's farewell journey to his beloved Italy. . . The prose is intimate and disarming. . . Szerb deftly weaves Italy's timeless allure ("everything there is so old") with observations on its contemporary fever." -- Publishers Weekly "The Third Tower is the vivid chronicle of a trip through a familiar landscape. The tone of the book conveys wonder, but the writing is always under the writer's control. . . expertly rendered into English by Len Rix, Szerb's longtime translator. . . The nostalgia that pervades The Third Tower is political, arising from an awareness of Europe's disastrous shift toward fascism and its disappearing tolerance of individual freedoms and differences of opinion." -- The Millions
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
914.50491
Synopsis
In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self-revelations. From Venice, he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna, to stand, fulfilling a lifelong dream, before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale. This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly, and at times painfully, up against an explosive present, producing some memorable observations on the social wonders and existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman Imperium., The Third Tower is a precious collection of Antal Szerb's lyrical, intelligent, and typically ironic travel notes, made during journeys through Italy in 1936, as the rise of Fascism marks the fall of the Europe of old--conveying a sense of both hopeful resolve and philosophical exhaustion., A typically brilliant and moving travelogue of 1930s Italy, by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers
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- o***n (5)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseVery nice book!
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