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From Venice to Vietnam, from the Welsh coast to Cairo, Don Meredith has travelled in the wake of 20th-century writers, using their novels and poems as guides, as another wayfarer might turn to Fodor's or the Guide Bleu. Canvassing the works of authors especially attuned to a sense of place, the author has gone in search of the backstreets, basilicas, cafes, piazzas and countrysides that figured so powerfully in their writings. Part travelogue, part literary study, this text is the author's account of these explorations into the impact of place in 12 literary classics.
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Departing radically from most standard travelogues, Meredith conducts a personally guided tour through both the exotic and the provincial settings that inspired and enhanced the works of a number of twentieth-century writers. Stringing together a dozen charming travel essays, the author, a seasoned traveler, offers an^B intimate, highly detailed glimpse into the unique literary landscapes of poets and novelists who "had captured the essence of a city, a region, a land, and used their works as guides." The inclusive pastiche of authors and locales surveyed include Dylan Thomas, Wales; Isak Dinesen, Africa; T. E. Lawrence, the Middle East; C. P. Cavafy, Alexandria; Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo; Thomas Mann, Venice; Giorgio Bassani, Italy; and Marguerite Duras and Graham Greene, Vietnam. This delightfully descriptive and evocative entree into some of the most intriguing literary stamping grounds is artfully designed to appeal to both scholars and armchair tourists. Margaret Flanagan
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- PublisherUniv of South Carolina Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1570033803
- ISBN 13 9781570033803
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