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The Serpent Coiled in Naples

Englisch · Fester Einband

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"In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new 'destination' in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see, the stories behind them remain largely hidden. In Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things -- Vesuvius, the mafia-like camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves. Naples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of clichâe. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides."--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Chapter One

The Serpent Coiled in Naples

Chapter Two

An Octopus in Forcella

Chapter Three

Street of the Solitary Woman

Chapter Four

The Man Who Watches the Waters

Chapter Five

Street Music

Chapter Six

Leopardi’s Stomach

Chapter Seven

Raimondo di Sangro & the Veil of Knowledge

Chapter Eight

Old Bones

Chapter Nine

The Devil at Play in the Quartieri Spagnoli

Chapter Ten

Signor Volcano

Chapter Eleven

The Life and Death (and life) of Pulcinella

Chapter Twelve

Boom

Chapter Thirteen

The Intimate Lives of Things Inanimate

Chapter Fourteen

The Ghost Palace of Roberto De Simone

Chapter Fifteen

An Infinitesimal Particle of the Universe

Notes

Acknowledgements

Über den Autor / die Autorin










Marius Kociejowski is a poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is the author of several books, including The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey and The Pigeon Wars of Damascus.


Zusammenfassung

Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city is unique.

Zusatztext


‘To write about Naples, you really need to be a poet–or, even better, an antiquarian bookseller. Kociejowski is both and has produced a delightful work that is as eclectic, labyrinthine, ironic and shocking as the city itself."

— Economist



"Kociejowski’s words pulse with the beating heart of this extraordinary city."

 

— Katherine Wilson



"At turns hilarious and profound."

 

— Diana Darke



"Kociejowski is a near invisible narrator, so completely caught up in his quest that he walks us through the mundane veil of everyday life to encounter real story-treasure."

— Barnaby Rogerson



"Kociejowski’s book (which takes its title from the Sicilian proverb ‘Never fear Rome –the serpent lies coiled in Naples’) is one of the best I have read on the ramshackle Mediterranean outpost (and I have read a few). In pages of scholarly but engagingly droll prose, Kociejowski conjures a death-haunted city, where the meaning of life is everywhere connected to what it is to die. . . . A pungent amalgam of reportage and travel, The Serpent Coiled in Naples does Naples and its citizenry proud."

— The Spectator (UK)



"A Serepent Coiled in Naples makes for excellent armchair travelling. And it may well tempt one to visit this effervescent if dangerous hive of the South of Italy."

— Fortnightly Review


Produktdetails

Autoren Marius Kociejowski, Kociejowski Marius
Verlag Haus Publishing
 
Sprache Englisch
Produktform Fester Einband
Erschienen 31.05.2022
 
EAN 9781909961814
ISBN 978-1-909961-81-4
Seiten 464
Abmessung 155 mm x 240 mm x 44 mm
Serie Armchair Traveller
Themen Reise > Reiseführer > Europa

TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Travel writing

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