{"product_id":"venice-the-lion-the-city-and-the-water","title":"Cees Nooteboom: Venice [2020] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"You might think there is little new to say about Venice, but Cees Nooteboom strolls down many under-explored alleyways in the city, his insights coloured by his knowledge of art and literature as welll as his past experiences . . . Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide\" \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless city about which everything has been said\" ALBERTO MANGUEL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The whole \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebook is the illuminating testimony \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof a man who cannot look away \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand so sees things that others, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eeven those with more specialist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eknowledge, have missed, whether \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eit be the color and consistency of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe ropes on the vaporetti, the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eglistening hues and squirming \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emovements of the fish at the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emarket, or the wondrous effects \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethat Tintoretto could achieve with \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003edabs of white in 'the gleam of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003earmour, the folds in a sleeve, the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewindings of a turban, the halo of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea man of the air who, as in the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLast Judgment, is flying through\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003espace, in a wide flowing cloak . . .'\" GREGORY DOWLING, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVENICE: \"A dream of palaces and churches, of power and money, dominion and decline, a paradise of beauty.\" By the author of \u003ci\u003eRoads to Santiago\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRoads to Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith this treasury of his time spent in Venice over a period of fifty-five years, Nooteboom makes himself the indispensable companion for all lovers of \"the sailing, amphibious city\", and for every new visitor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause he is a master storyteller with an inexhaustible curiosity, and always with a suitcase of books (to which new discoveries are added), he brings vividly and poetically to life not only the tumultuous history of the Republic but along the way its doges, its villains, its heroes, its magnificent painters, its architects, its scholars, its skies, its canals and piazzas and alleyways, and on his expeditions its \"bronze voices of time\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose who know and love this city and its literature will recognise Nooteboom - in Laura Watkinson's fine translation - as the dazzling heir and companion to Montaigne, Thomas Mann, Rilke, Ruskin, Proust, Brodsky, and Donna Leon. His homage to Venice is a generous introduction, learned and enchanting, and worthy of its magnificent subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory\" - COLIN THUBRON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nooteboom, Cees \u0026 Watkinson, Laura","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44635534065954,"sku":"9781529402551","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/nooteboom-cees-watkinson-laura-venice-the-lion-the-city-and-the-water-9781529402551-40811710021922.jpg?v=1678393426","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/venice-the-lion-the-city-and-the-water","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}