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Loading... Resa i etruskernas land (original 1932; edition 1954)by D. H. Lawrence
Work InformationEtruscan Places by D. H. Lawrence (1932)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A short travel book written in 1930's which explores Etruscan life through visiting tombs in the old Italian (Etruscian) towns of Tarquinia, Vulci, volterra. While most of tombs have been ransacked of artifacts, several murals remain and Lawrence provides an interesting comentary of what these mean and how the Etrucian people may have lived their lives. ( ) OK, so it's not the normal DH Lawrence - but then you wouldn't think it was. This is a 1930s travelogue. Some good description of Etruscan tombs, as seen then, but the book only really comes to life when Lawrence is adding his own views, whether on the difference between the Etruscans and the Romans, or life in Mussolini's Italy. If it is a subject which already interests you, then it is worth a read. no reviews | add a review
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The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the 5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their 'old wisdom', the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him they represented the antithesis of everything he despised in the modern world, perhaps because their spontaneity and naturalness struck a chord with his own quest for personal and artistic freedom - so often censured or repressed. Lawrence approaches the enigmatic Etruscans as a poet, passionately and searchingly, and so the reader is swept up in his luminous descriptions of a utopian world where dancing and feasting, art and music were everything. The exhilaration of Lawrence in his Etruscan adventures stands in stark contrast to his intimations of the darkness of Mussolini's Italy - at a time when Europe was beginning its inexorable drift towards tragedy. The last of Lawrence's travel books, 'Etruscan Places' is an ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)914.504History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Europe Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta TravelLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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