The Unforgivable
Campo, Cristina / Andriesse, Alex / Davis, Kathryn Thrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.Cristina Campo was one of the most distinctive European essayists of the twentieth century. Although well known to readers in Italy and abroad—including Alejandra Pizarnik, with whom she had a long correspondence—Campo was a devout perfectionist, disdainful of the literary limelight, and published only two...