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Bezig met laden... Venises (1971)door Paul Morand
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This autobiography is a poetic evocation of certain scenes of Morand's varied encounters & experiences. All this is filtered through the one constant in his life - the one place to which he would always return & with which he never lost faith - Venice. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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As he does in the other books I've read by him, Morand writes with a calm restraint in a style thati, although in no other way striking, seems effortless. Perhaps it's that calmness that makes his books so attractive--that and, in Venices, an incredibly strong sense of mood. I can't just now think of another book so strongly pervaded by mood. The tone is overwhelmingly elegiac, and long after I finished reading I felt a bit melancholy. It's not that Morand expresses sadness or regret; he's much too urbane for that. (And when he does give way to a things-were-better-when-we-were-young complaint he ends in self-mockery:: 'And the young people of today are better-looking than we were'.)
My copy of Venices has a very appealing cover with a murky painting of a Venetian scene on a textured blue background, but its publisher Pushkin has also issued an edition with a horrid cover that looks like a wallpaper sample from the 1950's. If you're ordering this online, it might be worth checking to see which version you'd be getting.