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9780374254056: Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome
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ISBN 10: 0374254052 ISBN 13: 9780374254056

Sinopsis

The bewitching story of Rome teaching a lonely scholar how to discover himself
 
Satyr Square—part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue—is a poignant, hilarious narrative about an American professor spending a magical year in Rome. A scarred veteran of academic culture wars, Leonard Barkan is at first hungry, lonely, and uncertain of his intellectual mission. But soon he is appointed unofficial mascot of an eccentric community of gastronomes, becomes virtually bilingual, and falls in love. As the year progresses, he finds his voice as a writer, loses his lover, and returns definitively to America. His book is the celebration of a life lived in the uncanny spaces where art and real people intersect.

Satyr Square is not just about the Renaissance and ancient statuary, or Shakespeare and Mozart, Charles Bukowski and Paul de Man, eggplant antipasto and Brunello di Montalcino, foot fetishism and sulfur baths. At the heart of the narrative—its surface all irony, humor, and indirection—is a man of genuine ardor, struggling with what it means to be a homosexual and a Jew, trying to rediscover or reinvent his own intellectual passions. Funny, erudite, and lusciously rendered, Satyr Square gives us the whole of a life made up from fragments of Italy, art, food, and longing.

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Leonard Barkan, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, has written four other books, including Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture. A native of New York City, he lives in Princeton.



Leonard Barkan, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, has written four other books, including Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture. A native of New York City, he lives in Princeton.

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Año de publicación
1709
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ISBN 10 
0374254052
ISBN 13 
9780374254056
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Número de páginas
289
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