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Satyr Square - Leonard Barkan, Nick Barberio

Satyr Square

A Year, a Life in Rome
Buch | Softcover
290 Seiten
2008
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-2494-3 (ISBN)
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Part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue, this loving reflection is a poignant, funny narrative about an American professor spending a year in Rome. A scarred veteran of academic culture wars retreating to a cradle of culture, Barkan is at first hungry, lonely, and uncertain of his intellectual mission. But soon he is appointed unofficial mascot of an eccentric community of gastronomes, becomes virtually bilingual, and falls in love. As the year progresses, he finds his voice as a writer, loses his lover, and definitively returns to America with heart, mind, and body. His memoir is the celebration of a life lived in the uncanny spaces where art and real people intersect.Barkan's reminiscence is not just about the Renaissance and ancient statuary, or Shakespeare and Mozart, Charles Bukowski and Paul de Man, eggplant antipasto and Brunello di Montalcino, foot fetishism and sulfur baths. At the heart of the narrative - beneath that beguiling surface of irony, humor, and misdirection - is a man of genuine ardor, struggling with what it means to be a homosexual and a Jew, trying to rediscover or reinvent his own intellectual passions. Hilarious, erudite, and lusciously rendered, Satyr Square gives us the whole of a life made up from fragments of Italy, art, food, and longing.

Leonard Barkan is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and the author of The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism, Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism, and Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.6.2008
Verlagsort Evanston
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Europa
Reiseführer Europa Italien
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8101-2494-7 / 0810124947
ISBN-13 978-0-8101-2494-3 / 9780810124943
Zustand Neuware
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