Floria Tosca by Paola Capriolo
Based on Puccini's opera, Floria Tosca reinterprets for today's times the relationship between Scarpia, chief of police, and Tosca, singer and lover of Cavaradossi, the radical, whom Scarpia plans to arrest and torture. In elegant, precise writing, Paola Capriolo takes us to a world where love and hatred, piety and devilry, abstinence and desire come together.
Capriolo's forte is the exquisite philosophical game played with corrosive scepticism * TLS *
Elegant, cunning and cruel, Floria Tosca will appeal to any opera lover who finds the virtuous heroes of the form crashing bores compared with their godless counterparts * Patrick Gale *
The mechanics and pleasures of the meeting between sadist and masochist have rarely been so elegantly handled as in the story of Tosca..Paola Capriolo has given a new, nasty, elaborately mannered and highly entertaining twist to the classic tale of fatal attraction of policeman for diva. I suggest you put on the Callas recording, pour yourself a drink, turn the lights down, read, and surrender * Neil Bartlett *
Elegant, cunning and cruel, Floria Tosca will appeal to any opera lover who finds the virtuous heroes of the form crashing bores compared with their godless counterparts * Patrick Gale *
The mechanics and pleasures of the meeting between sadist and masochist have rarely been so elegantly handled as in the story of Tosca..Paola Capriolo has given a new, nasty, elaborately mannered and highly entertaining twist to the classic tale of fatal attraction of policeman for diva. I suggest you put on the Callas recording, pour yourself a drink, turn the lights down, read, and surrender * Neil Bartlett *
Born in Milan in 1962, Paola Capriolo is one of the most respected of her generation of Italian writers. Her novel, Il Nocciero, won the 1990 Rapallo Prize. Her translated novels include Floria Tosca, a New York Times notable book and The Woman Watching. In 1991 Paola Capriolo was awarded the Förder Prize in Germany for her work. She is a journalist and translator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852423810 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852423811 |
| Title | Floria Tosca |
| Author | Paola Capriolo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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