Occhiacci di legno

""I am a Jew who was born and who grew up in a Catholic country; I never had a religious education; my Jewish identity is in large measure the result of persecution." This brief autobiographical statement is a key to understanding Carlo Ginzburg's interest in the topic of his latest book: distance. In nine linked essays, he addresses the question: "What is the exact distance that permits us to see things as they are?""--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: I. In 1992, the Russian critic Viktor Shklovsky, in a letter to Roman Jakobson, exclaimed cheerfully: "We know how life is made, and how Don Quixote and the car are made too."

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Editions

6

Pages

320

ISBN

9780231119603

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