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Rome Tales
Taschenbuch von Helen Constantine
Sprache: Englisch

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In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to contemporary new writers offer the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Casanova sets about seducing the hotelier's daughter only minutes after his arrival, a notorious Spanish prostitute in Renaissance Rome endures a public hiding without flinching, a Danish tourist in her sixties finds an unusual lover, Pope John Paul II uncovers a vast conspiracy against him, a medieval revolutionary demagogue suffers almost the same fate as Mussolini. A deep sense of timelessness, of separate destinies entwined across a gulf of centuries, is the cumulative effect of this vivid mosaic of dramatic or comic or tragic stories set in the Eternal City.
In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to contemporary new writers offer the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Casanova sets about seducing the hotelier's daughter only minutes after his arrival, a notorious Spanish prostitute in Renaissance Rome endures a public hiding without flinching, a Danish tourist in her sixties finds an unusual lover, Pope John Paul II uncovers a vast conspiracy against him, a medieval revolutionary demagogue suffers almost the same fate as Mussolini. A deep sense of timelessness, of separate destinies entwined across a gulf of centuries, is the cumulative effect of this vivid mosaic of dramatic or comic or tragic stories set in the Eternal City.
Über den Autor
Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.
; Hugh Shankland lived several years in Rome before founding and heading the Italian department at Durham University, England.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • General Introduction

  • Introduction

  • Abraham the Jew

  • Release

  • The New Thérèse

  • The Shirt on the Wall

  • Cola Di Rienzo

  • Freedom

  • Blue Car

  • Via Veneto Notes

  • Lorette Ellerup

  • Two Days to Christmas

  • Isabella De Luna

  • The Rubber Twins

  • The Beautiful Hand

  • The Girl with the Braid

  • 16 October 1943

  • Samia

  • Exmatriates

  • Romulus and Remus

  • The Small Hours

  • The Sound of Woodworm

  • Notes on the Authors

  • Further Reading and Viewing

  • Map

  • Publisher's Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 320
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199572465
ISBN-10: 0199572461
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Constantine, Helen
Redaktion: Constantine, Helen
Übersetzung: Shankland, Hugh
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 197 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Helen Constantine
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2011
Gewicht: 0,323 kg
preigu-id: 107066957
Über den Autor
Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.
; Hugh Shankland lived several years in Rome before founding and heading the Italian department at Durham University, England.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • General Introduction

  • Introduction

  • Abraham the Jew

  • Release

  • The New Thérèse

  • The Shirt on the Wall

  • Cola Di Rienzo

  • Freedom

  • Blue Car

  • Via Veneto Notes

  • Lorette Ellerup

  • Two Days to Christmas

  • Isabella De Luna

  • The Rubber Twins

  • The Beautiful Hand

  • The Girl with the Braid

  • 16 October 1943

  • Samia

  • Exmatriates

  • Romulus and Remus

  • The Small Hours

  • The Sound of Woodworm

  • Notes on the Authors

  • Further Reading and Viewing

  • Map

  • Publisher's Acknowledgments

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 320
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199572465
ISBN-10: 0199572461
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Constantine, Helen
Redaktion: Constantine, Helen
Übersetzung: Shankland, Hugh
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 197 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Helen Constantine
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2011
Gewicht: 0,323 kg
preigu-id: 107066957
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