Genius Loci: Notes on Places - Couverture souple

Lee, Vernon

 
9780998704487: Genius Loci: Notes on Places
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0998704482 ISBN 13 : 9780998704487
Editeur : Adventures in Ideas, 2021

Synopsis

Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the Franco-British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). For over 50 years, Paget churned out works of both fiction and nonfiction at the rate of nearly a book a year. Perhaps best remembered today for her supernatural short stories, Paget produced a number of books with essays about travel and place. Genius Loci: Notes on Places (1899) was her first.

Genius Loci is not a guidebook or a novel, but an intimate diary or, better said, a series of billets-doux to the places with which Paget has fallen in love. It offers vignettes and postcard-like snapshots of the memory and life of someone who attempted to breathe in the essence of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Paget’s reflections and her erudite insights into the histories of place, art, and literature shine as brightly as they are fleeting.

Genius Loci represents travel for the sake of travel, experience for the sake of experience, love for the sake of love, and, not least, art for the sake of art.

This Adventures in Ideas reissue contains a new foreword by Jeremy Bassetti.

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Éditeur
Adventures in Ideas
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0998704482
ISBN 13 
9780998704487
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
155
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