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2,500 years ago, the city of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily was, for the Ancient Greeks, one of the centres of the classical world. It was in Syracuse that Aeschylus premiered his plays, and to Syracuse that Plato would visit from Athens, where the tyrant Dionysius bought Euripides's lyre at auction, and the languishing nymph Arethusa hid in the papyrus grove. Living in the city, the poet Joachim Sartorius learned that this history and myth is still present today.

At Sartorius's side we walk with nymphs and cyclops through the old town of Ortigia, and meet the people of the city; its notables, police officers, artists, and barbers. Unravelling the depths of Sicilian history and bringing the juxtaposition, superimposition, and commingling of cultures, styles, and attitudes to life, Sartorius shows a city of ancient luminosity, bringing us, through the baroque, to the contemporary world.

• Forfatter: Joachim Sartorius
• Publisert: Okt. 2024
• Antall sider: 156
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781914982125

 

Emilia, an artist, arrives in Rome alone. What was supposed to be a romantic trip has, with the sudden end of her relationship, become a solitary one.

Six days lie ahead. She wanders the streets, surrendering herself to the music, food and beauty of the city. But when she meets John, an American living out a seemingly idyllic existence in Rome, their instant connection challenges how she sees her past, her family and herself.

As their intimacy deepens, can Emilia begin to imagine life anew?Visceral, decadent and deeply evocative, Six Days in Rome is a novel about reckoning with complex pasts and choices made - and finding what you didn't know you were looking for.

• Forfatter: Francesca Giacco
• Publisert: August 2022
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 288
  
• ISBN: 9781472295859

I «Skolopenderen danser» reiser vi med Wolf til Roma, Paris og Asmara. Øysteins assosiative og vilt kreative språk løper i alle retninger - samtidig. Her er humor, kåtskap og alvor - sinne, galskap og latter. Boken består av to korte og eventyrlige romaner: «Skolopenderen danser» og «Hestetimen». Alle hovedpersonene er unge kvinner. Vi følger disse gjennom hverdag og drøm; på reiser du aldri vil glemme.

Øystein Wingaard Wolf (f. 1958) er i en kategori for seg selv på litteratur- og kulturfeltet. Vi har å gjøre med en av de store språkkunstnerne i landet. Ikke bare som lyriker og romanforfatter har han gjort seg bemerket, han er også en begavet låtmaker og sanger. Dessuten har han oppfunnet elefantdansen.