The serpent coiled in Naples / Marius Kociejowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kociejowski, Marius, author.

Series:

ArmchairTraveller

Armchair Traveller

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naples (Italy)--History.

Naples (Italy).

Naples (Italy)--Description and travel.

Travel.

Italy--Naples.

Genre:

History.

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

498 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Armchair Traveller, an imprint of Haus Publishing Ltd, 2022.

Summary:

"In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new 'destination' in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see, the stories behind them remain largely hidden. In Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things -- Vesuvius, the mafia-like camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves. Naples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of cliché. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Serpent Coiled in Naples

2. An Octopus in Forcella

3. Street of the Solitary Woman

4. The Man Who Watches the Waters

5. Street Music

6. Leopardi's Stomach

7. Raimondo di Sangro & the Veil of Knowledge

8. Old Bones

9. The Devil at Play in the Quartieri Spagnoli

10. Signor Volcano

11. The Life and Death (and life) of Pulcinella

12. Boom

13. The Intimate Lives of Things Inanimate

14. The Ghost Palace of Roberto De Simone

15. An Infinitesimal Particle of the Vegetal Universe.

Notes:

"First published in the UK in 2022 by Armchair Traveller, an imprint of Haus Publishing Ltd."--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781909961814

1909961817

OCLC:

1308452141