Do you want to learn more about Gianni Celati? If so, you may like to get hold of Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce): A Critical Edition published by Lexington Books in 2019. The volume is edited by Patrick Barron. It includes Barron’s engaging translation of Celati’s original text and a good series of critical essays on Celati’s work written by international scholars. The essays highlight Celati’s seminal role in focusing attention on forgotten spaces and rediscovering ordinary landscapes.
Bookmark: A Sentimental Journey
The travel narratives of yesteryear line our shelves, and it was really no more than chance that last week we looked again at Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey. Some might venture that in shelving it in the travel section of our modest library ...