{"product_id":"unforgivable-paperback","title":"Unforgivable (Paperback)","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":"Campo, Cristina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52638293164306,"sku":"9781681378022","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/17569283482786.jpg?v=1787601832","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/unforgivable-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}