The Unforgivable
By Cristina Campo
Introduction by Kathryn Davis
Translated by Alex Andriesse
By Cristina Campo
Introduction by Kathryn Davis
Translated by Alex Andriesse
By Cristina Campo
Introduction by Kathryn Davis
Translated by Alex Andriesse
By Cristina Campo
Introduction by Kathryn Davis
Translated by Alex Andriesse
Category: Literary Fiction | Essays & Literary Collections | Literary Criticism
Category: Literary Fiction | Essays & Literary Collections | Literary Criticism
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$18.95
Feb 06, 2024 | ISBN 9781681378022
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Feb 06, 2024 | ISBN 9781681378039
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Praise
“Christina Campo was an anchorite with worldly manners [and] the face of a fifteenth-century Tuscan statue. She lived amid contradictions, between hope and despair, passion and scorn, gentleness and rage. She had a sovereign sense of limits and frontiers, but her soul was immoderate. She longed for the unknown homeland, the God hidden behind the visible gods.” —Pietro Citati
“Campo’s language, steeped overlong in ritual, comes on like a sibyl’s breath….I imagine you could spend a lifetime with Campo’s work and never get to the bottom of her devotion to fairy tales.” —Bailey Trela, The Baffler
“Eschewing the Romantic idolisation of the imagination, Campo argues that fairy tales are the surest guides to reality, the paths on which we travel to the real…It was because she was dedicated to the pursuit of sprezzatura in her life, as well as in her writing, that she was able to find a joyful way of being in the world, and that she was able to stand back—though never aloof—from the controversies of her day to produce the numinous prose we are now so fortunate to have in an English translation.” —Roy Peachy, European Conservative
“Campo’s creativity was a vocation in the truest sense; always at a remove, indifferent to attention or success….Perfection was her theme, aesthetic as well as moral.” —Jhumpa Lahiri
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