Tim Parks is the author of fourteen novels, including Europa (shortlisted for the Booker prize), Destiny, Cleaver, Sex Is Forbidden and, most recently, Painting Death, all of which have been translated into many languages. As well as being a novelist and the author of several works of non-fiction, Tim is the acclaimed translator of books by Moravia, Calvino, Machiavelli and other Italian writers. He’s a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
There are many ways of touring the land that Italians, following
Dante, call il bel paese, and Parks is as perceptive a guide as
could be wished.
*TLS*
Erudite and well-written
*Financial Times*
He remains the best interpreter of Italian ways in English
*Sunday Herald*
It is an immensely learned, elegantly written rehearsal of the
significance of 23 Italian writers, from Dante in the 13th century
to Antonio Tabucchi in our own, and as such it amounts I think to
an assessment of the Italian sensibility as a whole. Nobody is
better qualified than Tim Parks to guide us through such an
experience... He can be as entertaining as he is scholarly, and he
is evidently profoundly concerned with the relationship everywhere
between art and life.
*The Spectator*
Tim Parks’s new volume of essays goes where it is inaccessible to
the casual tourist, deep into the literature
*The Independent*
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