Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy

Synopsis

You cannot think of art, only of life itself, as if this were the very life of the Etruscans, dancing with naked limbs, ruddy from the air and the sea-light, dancing and fluting along through the olive trees, out in the fresh day.'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 ethereal and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation.

Copyright:

2011

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

200 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780857719829

Related ISBNs:

9781848855328

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

02/23/19

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Travel, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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