The dark heart of Italy
Author:
Publisher:
North Point Press,
Pub. Date:
2004.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Language:
English
Description
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year voyage across the Italian peninsula. Jones writes not just about Italy's art, climate, and cuisine but also about the much livelier and stranger sides of the Bel Paese: the language, soccer, Catholicism, cinema, television, and terrorism. Why, he wonders, does the parliament need a "slaughter commission"? Why do bombs still explode every time politics start getting serious? Why does everyone urge him to go home as soon as possible, saying that Italy is a "brothel"? Most of all, why does one man, Silvio Berlusconi-in the words of a famous song-appear to own everything from Padre Nostro (Our Father) to Cosa Nostra (the Mafia)? The Italy that emerges from Jones's travels is a country scarred by civil wars and "illustrious corpses"; a country that is proudly visual rather than verbal, based on aesthetics rather than ethics; a country where crime is hardly ever followed by punishment; a place of incredible illusionism, where it is impossible to distinguish fantasy from reality and fact from fiction.
Subjects
Subjects
Berlusconi, Silvio
Berlusconi, Silvio, -- 1936-
Description and travel
History
Homes and haunts
Italy -- Description and travel
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1994-
Italy -- Social conditions -- 1994-
Italy -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
Jones, Tobias
Jones, Tobias -- Homes and haunts -- Italy
Political corruption
Political corruption -- Italy -- History
Politics and government
Social conditions
Social life and customs
Berlusconi, Silvio, -- 1936-
Description and travel
History
Homes and haunts
Italy -- Description and travel
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1994-
Italy -- Social conditions -- 1994-
Italy -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
Jones, Tobias
Jones, Tobias -- Homes and haunts -- Italy
Political corruption
Political corruption -- Italy -- History
Politics and government
Social conditions
Social life and customs
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ISBN:
9780865477001
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