Literary Italy
Anne and Jim welcome you to Literary Italy, a joyous romp through the books and the landscape of the bel paese. Join us as we share our love of the literature, the people, the land, and the experience that is Italy.
Literary Italy
Ep. 30: Ortese / Naples, Rapallo
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Anne Schuchman and James Berrettini
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Season 1
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Episode 30
Join us for Anna Maria Ortese's "A Pair of Eyeglasses" in Neapolitan Chronicles (Italian: Il mare non bagna Napoli ). Published in English for the first time in decades in 2018, Ortese gives us a gritty glimpse of postwar Naples in a slice-of-life tale about . . . optometry. Ortese retired to Rapallo in Liguria and died there in 1998.
- Un paio di occhiali short film adaptation on YouTube.
- Neapolitan Chronicles on Amazon.com