Description: Isolated and arrestingly beautiful, the island of Capri has been a refuge for renegade artists and writers fleeing the strictures of conventional society from the time of Augustus, who bought the island in 29 B.C. after defeating Antony and Cleopatra, to the early twentieth century, when the poet and novelist Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen was in exile there after being charged with corrupting minors, to the 1960s, when Truman Capote spent time on the island. We also meet the Marquis de Sade, Goethe, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Compton Mackenzie, Rilke, Lenin, and Gorky, among other astonishingly vivid characters. Grounded in a deep intimacy with Capri and full of captivating anecdotes, Jamie James's Pagan Light tells how a tiny island served as a wildly permissive haven for people-queer, criminal, sick, marginalized, and simply crazy-who had nowhere else to go.
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EAN: 9781250251145
UPC: 9781250251145
ISBN: 9781250251145
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Book Title: Pagan Light : Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Europe / Italy, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
Author: Jamie James
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
