{"product_id":"9781681378022","title":"The Unforgivable","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"","brand":"Cristina Campo","offers":[{"title":"New York Review Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-02-06","offer_id":44663221518591,"sku":"9781681378022","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a7dff24f-9294-46f0-b7f7-c2e4136463dd.jpg?v=1704534397","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781681378022","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}