The serpent coiled in Naples
Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Publisher and Date
London :Armchair Traveller, an imprint of Haus Publishing Ltd,2022.
©2022
ISBN
9781909961814.
; 1909961817.
Library of Congress Call Number
DG845.6.K63 2022
Geographic Area Code
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Description
498 pages :illustrations (black and white) ;24 cm.
Contents (as listed on item)
System Control Number
(OCoLC)1308452141
General Note(s)
Summary"In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new 'destination' in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see, the stories behind them remain largely hidden. In Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things -- Vesuvius, the mafia-like camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves. Naples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of clicȟ. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides"--Provided by publisher.
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