{"product_id":"the-unforgivable-and-other-writings-9781681378022","title":"The Unforgivable: And Other Writings","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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Cristina Campo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43397721260213,"sku":"9781681378022","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_883b2c0e-37f7-4a36-8068-1df809fdcd96.jpg?v=1702393259","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-unforgivable-and-other-writings-9781681378022","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}