Italian Days
A travel essay that moves down the Italian peninsula, weaving history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, art, and literature into a deeply personal cultural encounter.
Work Information
Travel becomes a way to read culture and memory.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's Italian travel narrative reads as a dense cultural essay, going beyond travel notes to layer history, food, architecture, and literature into the journey.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Published
- 1990-09-01
- Pages
- 496 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.88 x 3.18 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780395551318
- ISBN-10
- 0395551315
- Price
- 7347 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Travel/Europe/Italy
This book is a journey down the Italian peninsula that will make even the most experienced traveler relive its splendor anew. Harrison offers a fascinating mixture of Italian history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, art, and literature.
Reviews
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Good book!
wonderful read!
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Beautifully written, thought provoking, highly readable little gem of a book
I don’t know how this one isn’t better known — I guess travel writing doesn’t sell well? This thing is insanely poetic. Quotes by Dante and Stendhal, weird little impressionist prose poems about the Italian landscape and architecture throughout. I’ve never even been to the place, but I enjoyed this one thoroughly!
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Lots of meandering and personal stories.
I read other books that were more helpful for traveling to Italy. This one bordered on a personal journal of sorts and gave lots of story lines that I didn’t care to read.
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Beautiful Italy
Italian Days is beautifully written by an author who can really write. Her style is exquisite. All the important Italian cities and the landscapes of Southern Italy appear, so for anyone who ever was in Italy, this book will bring back memories as it did for me. For anyone who has not been to Italy, it will motivate them to hop into a plane right away!
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A vicarious tour of wonderful, dysfunction Italy
I read this when it first came out, and loved it. It's waiting for me to reread in, in anticipation of making my own trek around Italy.