The Other Venice

The intellectual who in his essays brought us face toface with the dilemmas and anxieties of former Yugoslavia now gives us poetry veiled in the lucidness of his prose, melancholic inspiration snatched from oblivion. With his commanding yet subtle hand, Matvejević paints Venice, that “other” Venice we have not known until now, he makes us see it with different eyes. The author of Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, that “magnificent,surprising and brilliant book” (Claudio Magris) that helped us approach the Adriatic in a new way, in this work uncovers, on top of everything else, the poetry of humility and namelessness. Renato Minore, IlMessaggero