{"product_id":"the-unforgivable-and-other-writings-paperback","title":"The Unforgivable: And Other Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCristina Campo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlex Andriesse\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and \u003ci\u003eDoctor Zhivago\u003c\/i\u003e to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale and Mystery \u003c\/i\u003e(1962) and \u003ci\u003eThe Flute and the Carpet \u003c\/i\u003e(1971). \u003ci\u003eThe Unforgivable and Other Writings \u003c\/i\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCampo's subjects range from the canonical to the esoteric. She writes stylishly about Shakespeare and \u003ci\u003eDoctor Zhivago, \u003c\/i\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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCristina Campo\u003c\/b\u003e (1923-1977) was born in Bologna and brought up in Florence. A congenital heart malformation kept Campo out of school and social life for much of her childhood, forcing her into a reclusion enlivened by her reading. A bona fide autodidact, she had by her teens begun to read deeply in Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English literature. After World War II, Campo moved to Rome, where she became acquainted with Eugenio Montale, Curzio Malaparte, and Roberto Bazlen, among others. Intensely private, she almost always published under pseudonyms (Cristina Campo being one of them) and translated--Simone Weil, Katherine Mansfield, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf--far more than she wrote. Although she had always been a Catholic, in the 1960s Campo's faith became more fervent; she spent long periods in convents and strongly opposed the Second Vatican Council's relinquishment of the Latin liturgy. Her heart continued to cause her serious trouble throughout her life, and she died in Rome at the age of fifty-three. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Andriesse\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1985. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Review of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProdigal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e. He has translated several works from Italian and French, including Bernardo Zannoni's \u003ci\u003eMy Stupid Intentions\u003c\/i\u003e, available from New York Review Books, and the first two parts of François-René de Chateaubriand's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs from Beyond the Grave\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an associate editor at New York Review Books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Silk Road\u003c\/i\u003e, and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eAurelia Aurélia\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.01 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764802814240,"sku":"9781681378022","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ce30ac36eff8282a98a02fc583e8dd32.webp?v=1780255129","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-unforgivable-and-other-writings-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}