Twilight In Italy - Couverture souple

Lawrence, D.H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861712758 ISBN 13 : 9781861712752

Editeur : Crescent Moon Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Book by LAWRENCE DH TURNER JMW

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

TWILIGHT IN ITALY by D.H. LAWRENCE A new edition of the travel book that D.H. Lawrence wrote about his travels in Germany, Italy and the Alps. Twilight In Italy is one of Lawrence's most lyrical and upbeat books, an enchanting account of travelling around Europe. < Illustrated with paintings by J.M.W. Turner. EXTRACT FROM THE PASSAGE WHERE D.H. LAWRENCE IS AT LAKE GARDA: I went into the church. It was very dark, and impregnated with centuries of incense. It affected me like the lair of some creature. My senses were roused, they sprang awake in the spiced darkness. My skin was expectant, as if it expected some contact, some embrace, as if it were aware of the contiguity of the physical world, the physical contact with the darkness and the heavy, suggestive substance of the enclosure. It was a thick, fierce darkness of the senses. But my soul shrank. I went out again. The pavemented threshold was clear as a jewel, the marvellous clarity of sunshine that becomes blue in the height seemed to distil me into Across, the heavy mountain crouched along the side of the lake, the upper half brilliantly white, belonging to the sky, the lower half dark and grim. So, then, that is where heaven and earth are divided. From behind me, on the left, the headland swept down out of a great, pale-grey, arid height, through a rush of russet and crimson, to the olive smoke and the water of the level earth. And between, like a blade of the sky cleaving the earth asunder, went the pale-blue lake, cleaving mountain from mountain with the triumph of the sky. www.crmoon.com

Revue de presse :

'The sharpness of Lawrence's eye is incredible... brilliantly informative, educative, entertaining and moving.' --
Anthony Burgess

'It cannot be read as an ordinary travel book, for his voyage is philosophic, as well as a symbolic and sensuous one.' --
Anaïs Nin

'If this is travel writing, it is travel writing in excelsis - beyond the spectacle, beyond the experience, beyond even the interpretation, into profounder conclusions of the spirit.' --
Jan Morris

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Crescent Moon Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1861712758
• ISBN 13: 9781861712752
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Illustrateur: Turner J.M.W.