Eleanor Clark - Rome and A Villa

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Rome And A Villa
de Eleanor Clark
Michael Joseph : London : 1954
Idioma: Inglês

SINOPSE
In 1947 a young american woman named Eleanor Clark went to Rome on a Guggenheim fellowship to write a novel. But Rome had its way with her, the novel was abandoned, and what followed was not a novel but a series of sketches of Roman life, most written between 1948 and 1951. This new edition of her now classic book includes an evocative foreword by the eminent translator William Weaver, who was a close friend of the authors and often wandered the city with her during the years she was working on Rome and a Villa.Once in Rome, the foreign writer or artist, over the course of weeks, months, or years, begins to lose ambition, to lose a sense of urgency, to lose even a sense of self. What once seemed all-consuming is swallowed up by Rome$8212;by the pace of life; by the fatalism of the Roman people, to whom everything and nothing matters; by the sheer historic weight and scale of the place. Rome is life itselfmessy, random, anarchic, comical one moment, tragic the next, and above all, seductive.Clark pays special attention to Roman art and architecture. In the books midsection she looks at Hadrians Villaan enormous, unfinished palaceas a metaphor for the city itself: decaying, imperial, shabby, but capable of inducing an overwhelming dreaminess in its visitors. The books final chapter...

Livro em inglês / Viagens / Roma
colecionismo / antigo