{"product_id":"the-unforgivable-and-other-writings-by-cristina-campo-introduction-by-kathryn-davis","title":"The Unforgivable and Other Writings \/ by Cristina Campo; introduction by Kathryn Davis","description":"\u003cp\u003eNYRB. Trade pb. VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDoctor Zhivago\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFairy Tale and Mystery\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1962) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Flute and the Carpet\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1971). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unforgivable and Other Writings\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebrings together both volumes, along with a selection of essays on literature and an autobiographical short story, offering readers of English the first full-length portrait of a writer who has long been admired in Italy and abroad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCampo's subjects range from the canonical to the esoteric. She writes stylishly about Shakespeare and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDoctor Zhivago,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas well as flying carpets, sprezzatura, and the theophagic origins of the Latin liturgy. Her passion for Marianne Moore and T. S. Eliot makes her a modernist, but like these American counterparts she is a modernist preoccupied by the deep past and by her desire to escape from personality through sustained attention to form. For Campo, writing was a spiritual discipline, and her sentences are at once wonderfully and wildly alive and serenely self-effacing. \"I have written little,\" she once said, \"and would like to have written less.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46577106583718,"sku":null,"price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/theunforgiveable.webp?v=1755040715","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unforgivable-and-other-writings-by-cristina-campo-introduction-by-kathryn-davis","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}