As spring revives our appetite for adventures abroad, we’ll be looking at a classic of travel writing
Now that spring is bringing back its gentle warmth, it’s time to go travelling. Specifically, to Venice: a place that often seems like a feat of imagination as much as a real bricks-and-mortar city. A place that is forever being made and remade in fiction by writers as impressive and various as Shakespeare, Byron, Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Evelyn Waugh, Daphne Du Maurier, Goethe, Stendhal, Dante. A place which, as Jeanette Winterson (who herself described the city memorably in The Passion) has said: “is quantum, a Schrödinger’s cat of a city, simultaneously dead and alive, true and false, solid and watery, firm and disappeared.”
No one captures this elusive quality better than Jan Morris. We’re going to look at her 1960 classic Venice, as well as exploring the broader literature of Venice and its history. I’m also delighted to say that Jan Morris has agreed to answer questions from you about this book and her long, brilliant career.
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