{"product_id":"the-unforgivable-and-other-writings","title":"The Unforgivable: And Other Writings","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDoctor Zhivago\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChristina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFairy Tale and Mystery \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1962) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Flute and the Carpet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1971). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Unforgivable and Other Writings \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCampo's subjects range from the canonical to the esoteric. She writes stylishly about Shakespeare and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDoctor Zhivago, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: NYRB\u003cbr\u003ePages: 269\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781681378022\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1681378022\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cristina Campo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45513121497354,"sku":"","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781681378022.jpg?v=1713976741","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-unforgivable-and-other-writings","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}