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A Gentleman In Verona |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Roberto Severino |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,452 Words, 20,605 Characters |
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ITALIAN NEIGHBORS
Or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona
Tim Parks
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992
328 pp., $19.95
When it seemed that everything that could be said about Italy and the Italians had already been said in the writings of classical authors such as Stendhal or John Addington Symonds, historians and social observers such as D. Mack Smith or Luigi Barzini, anthropologists and political scientists such as Ann Cornelisen and John Fraser, here comes a delightful and insightful new book that even the most occasional reader will find truly amusing, genuinely informative, and indeed, absolutely fascinating.
Undoubtedly, its author, Tim Parks, the "lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona," having spent many years in Italy and having acquired an Italian wife, can be conside...
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...And so what kind of book is this, we may ask. Is it a travel book, a sociological or anthropological study, a cultural diary? Or is it merely, as its author suggests, an "arrival book"? For by the end, he writes, "this small square handkerchief of Italy I live in has become home for me." Well, whatever the case, it most certainly is a book that all of us, Italians at heart, should not miss. vbcrlf
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