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6 hours ago · There’s a scene near the beginning of Mavis Gallant’s 1959 novella Green Water, Green Sky which seems to encapsulate this stunning book. We are in Venice in the height of summer. Seven-year-old Georgie has been left in the company of his fussy Aunt Bonnie and fourteen-year-old cousin Flor (short for Florence), who clearly has no time for ...
6 hours ago · D’Annunzio, in fact, periodically approached photography as a means to record fragile cultures eroded by industrialization, as also seen in the more pictorial photographic tableaux vivants he commissioned from collector and photographer Count Giuseppe Primoli and that inspired his novel Le vergini delle rocce (Virgins of the Cliffs) (1895). 56 Furthermore, D’Annunzio understood the portrait photograph’s potential to fix identity and establish a sense of place in the world, as well as ...
