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03392aam a2200421 i 4500 001 5B4604302E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230428s2024 nyu b 000 e eng 010 $a 2023017744 020 $a 1681378027 020 $a 9781681378022 035 $a (OCoLC)1393094528 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d QGQ $d CQC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d PAU $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ4863.A39525 $b U54 2024 082 00 $a 808.84 $2 23/eng/20230807 100 1 $a Campo, Cristina, $d 1923-1977, $e author. 245 14 $a The unforgivable and other writings / $c Cristina Campo ; translated from the Italian by Alex Andriesse ; introduction by Kathryn Davis. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2024] 300 $a xvi, 269 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books classics 520 $a "In the biographical note accompanying one of her books, Cristina Campo said of herself: "She has written little and would like to have written less". That little is almost all collected in this book and will impose an observation on every perceptive reader: these pages belong to the most beautiful Italian prose has been shown in the last fifty years. Cristina Campo was unforgivable, in the sense that the word has in the essay that gives the title to this book: like Marianne Moore, like Hofmannsthal, like Benn, like Weil, she had the "passion for perfection". She could not otherwise have written the pages that are read here on Chopin or on the fairy tale, on the Arabian Nights or about language. "I salute a wisdom among the strangest today" Ceronetti once wrote from Campo. Perhaps the time has come for readers to realize that in Italy, among so many promoters of their own mediocrity, this "trappist of perfection" also lived"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographic references (pages 253-269). 505 00 $t The golden nut. $r (1962). Deer park -- $t In medio coeli -- $t On fairy tales -- $t Les sources de la Vivonne -- $t Nights -- $t The unforgivable -- $t A digression: on language -- $t With light hands -- $t The flute and the carpet -- $t Fairy tale and mystery $r (1962). Deer park -- $t Attention and poetry -- $t The maximal flavor of each word. On William Carlos Williams -- $t On John Donne -- $t A doctor -- $t Homage to Borges -- $t Supernatural senses. Introduction to Sayings and deeds of the desert fathers -- $t Introduction to The way of a pilgrim -- $t Supernatural senses -- $t Other writings. Introduction to Katherine Mansfield -- $t A tragedy by Simone Weil: Venice saved -- $t Gravity and grace in Richard II -- $t The golden nut. 600 10 $a Campo, Cristina, $d 923-1977 $v Translations into English. 655 7 $a Creative nonfiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919909 655 7 $a Essays $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919922 655 7 $a Creative nonfiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Essais fictionnels. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000499 776 08 $i Online version: $a Campo, Cristina, 1923-1977. $t Unforgivable and other writings $d New York : New York Review Books, [2024] $z 9781681378039 $w (DLC) 2023017745 700 1 $a Andriesse, Alex, $e translator. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012420.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B4604302E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search