Neapol
Naples

Summary/Abstract: The presented text is composed of several essays from Napoli, a volume by Raffaele La Capria. The book in question – actually: a collection of sketches from 1986–1998 – is an extraordinary testimony of the accuracy of memory, and a brilliant presentation of the abundance of images of the phenomenon of the titular town from the viewpoint of anthropology, history, literature, and personal experience. The discussed collection is a veritable key to the author’s oeuvre, an image of a “beautiful day“, that “un peu de temps à l’état pur” (Proust) perpetuating the author’s mythical childhood and youth by the Bay of Naples.

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