Fleeting Rome : in search of la dolce vita / Carlo Levi ; translated by Ton Shugaar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levi, Carlo, 1902-1975.

Contributor:

Shugaar, Antony.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Rome (Italy)--Description and travel.

Rome (Italy).

Rome (Italy)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Summary:

Fleeting Rome is a vibrant and evocative portrayal of everyday life in Rome from the end of World War II to the student movements of the 1960s. Levi skilfully and lovingly sketches a portrait of the city and of its inhabitants through changing seasons and changing times. Levi revels in the riotous celebrations for New Year and the many festivals through the year and rejoices in the beauty of the city in the early morning mist. He introduces the civil servant who spends his days collecting wild asparagus (a perfect employee who takes up no room in his office and causes no scandals), a peasant who wishes to be a writer, a writer who prefers football to talking about literature and thieves who masquerade as policemen. Rome for Levi is a constant joyous adventure that at every encounter and every street presents the casual stroller with a new and hidden delight.

Contents:

I The People of Rome 1

II The Solitude of Rome 25

III The Two-Cent Coin 31

IV Sunday Stroll 37

V The Helicopter 43

VI Apparitions in Rome 51

VII The Duty of the Comet 57

VIII Elegy to the Mid-August Holidays 65

IX Hyperbolic Tourism 71

X Killing Time 77

XI Points of View 83

XII The Power of the Poor 89

XIII Brigands and Peasants 95

XIV Plants and Seeds 103

XV The Steps of Rome 111

XVI The Empty Cities 119

XVII Girls and Trees 125

XVIII A Dawn in Rome 131

XIX Summer Journey 137

XX The New Moon 143

XXI San Lorenzo and San Paolo 149

XXII A Child in Flight 155

XXIII After the Party 163

XXIV Substance and Chance 171

XXV Clothes Moths 179

XXVI Japanese Toys 187

XXVII Football and Men of Letters 193

XXVIII The Drainage Ditch and the Measles 199

XXIX A Boy Steals a Car Radio in the Piazza Navona 205

XXX The Labyrinth 213

XXXI City of Brothers 219

XXXII Summer Dissolves in Mists 227

XXXIII Fleeting Rome 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0470871830

OCLC:

56429586