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In his hillside villa overlooking the Bay of Naples, Professor Bellavista reflects on everyday life in Naples, love, liberty and the state of the world with a group of unemployed student philosophers
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Text: English, Italian (translation)
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A bestselling novelist in Europe, DeCrescenzo is here translated into English for the first time. And what a rollicking, erudite, irreverent debut it is, with the eponymous Bellavista taking the role of Socratic interlocutor and, often, responder. The format is striking: long, excoriating diatribes against power and its alter ego, sex, alternating with intimate vignettes of everyday Neapolitan life. Professor Bellavista harangues his listenersthree out-of-work family men, a pompous doctor and an engineer from Rome, who serves as narratorabout the virtues of Naples, City of Love, whose only religion is soccer and whose denizens unknowingly practice the Epicurean Middle Way. There his audience hits the streets, to take the city's pulse, and talk gives way to action. We meet Gennarino the kamikaze, who manages to be hit by a bus every week or so in order to collect insurance, a specialty he has honed to such high art that the insurance companies offer him a retainer to stop suing them. Although philosophical argument and classical reference sometimes pall, such leavening anecdotes, as well as the fluid translation, keep things spinning.
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- PublisherPan Macmillan
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 033030576X
- ISBN 13 9780330305761
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xii 205 pages. A clean, unmarked and solid copy. Translated from the Italian 'Cosi? parlo? Bellavista : Napoli, amore e liberta?' by Avril Bardoni. "Luciano De Crescenzo was an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer. Born in Naples, he graduated in engineering and worked for IBM Italy until 1976, when he published the bestseller Così parlò Bellavista (Thus Spake Bellavista), a collection of facts and anecdotes about his city which sold 600,000 copies in Italy and was translated into numerous languages. In 1980 he debuted as actor in Il pap'occhio, under the direction of his friend Renzo Arbore, together with Roberto Benigni.". Seller Inventory # 020637
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