THE PORTRAIT OF THE LOVER.
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1999]. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition. 339,[1] pp. Six black & white plate illustrations. Translated from the Italian by Laura Gibbs. Author's preface, translator's preface, notes, works cited, index. Fine, in a fine pictorial dust jacket.
"'Take an abandoned lover, put a portrait in his hands, and then a story slowly but surely begins to explore the situation.' All the tales presented by Maurizio Bettini in this zestful study concern lovers' separations, with a twist: one of the lonely partners retains an image -- a statue, a portrait -- of the other, and this image becomes the focus of the resulting story about separation and loneliness." -- from the Publisher. Item #466
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