| The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos Contributor(s): Maneos, Pietros (Author) |
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ISBN: 0985228105 ISBN-13: 9780985228101 Publisher: Aesthete Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6" W x 9" (0.49 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gabriele Paterkallos, a young American poet of Greco-Italian descent, is visiting Rome to have his first poetry collection published as well to travel throughout Italy. During his Italian sojourn, he exchanges a series of letters with the self-exiled American novelist residing in Paris, Odysseus Pane, a few years his senior, and a bit more established within literary circles. The letters - Gabriele's private musings upon life, literature and beauty - are highly personal, yet still retain a unique universality about them. Indeed, many letters read as a passionate paean to Italy's timeless beauty redolent of a 19th century nobleman detailing the sights of his Italian Grand Tour. Gabriele is an arch-Romantic to the core positioning himself against the prevailing mores of the modern world. One seems to vacillate between intense feelings of revulsion, attraction, and even pity for Gabriele; not knowing whether to renounce him entirely or to fall deeply in love with him; and even those who have come to despise him find his broody, mysterious persona quite irresistible. |