Four Seasons in Rome
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Average rating4.2
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Ratings12
Average rating4.2
Documents the award-winning writer's experiences of living, working, and raising twin sons in Rome during the year following his receipt of a prestigious Rome Prize stipend, a period during which he attended the vigil of the dying John Paul II, brought his children on a snowy visit to the Pantheon, and befriended numerous locals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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Doerr, a fiction writer, wins an award that provides him with a place to stay and writing time in Rome for a year. The problem? His wife has just given birth to twins and his life has forever changed.
Doerr spends a tremendous amount of time writing about how he is having trouble writing. If you can get past that, there is great beauty to be found in the writing he achieves.
Based on how much I enjoyed this experience, I will now be eagerly searching for other travelogue memoirs by authors, or poets.
Not simply a writer that got to travel, or took a job in a new place, but an author who essentially made it his job to spend a year appreciating that new place, with a rich history, art and culture, and had the added curse/benefit of twin infant children, which perhaps increases one's capacity for wonder, or perhaps lack of sleep just adds a vaguely hallucinatory quality that boosts poetic exposition. ‘Lil existential crisis and ruminations on death thrown in. Chock full of immersive descriptions both idyllic and gritty. Lovely to lose myself in for a few hours.
Et vemodets mesterverk!
Jeg har en yndlingssjanger, kombinasjonen av essay, reiseskildring og memoar. Den følsomme blandingen av emosjoner, kunnskaper og virkelighet. Denne er slik.
