{"product_id":"unforgivable-and-other-writings","title":"Unforgivable: And Other Writings","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eUnforgivable: And Other Writings\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCristina Campo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681378022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Unforgivable: And Other Writings | Cristina Campo | Paperback | 9781681378022 | New | Literary Collections 1577623","offer_id":50598065078530,"sku":"1577623","price":33.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/811NUdEIYHL.jpg?v=1791151554","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/unforgivable-and-other-writings","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}