The Story of San Michele
Registered by angi612uk of Whitchurch, Somerset United Kingdom on 1/1/2009
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Review
'One of the most fascinating of books, wise in its appraisal of men, overflowing with humour and edged with irony, sharper than a surgeon's knife. There are chapters which are veritable de Maupassant plots in their concise and dramatic realism.' -- New York Herald Tribune 'Told with a power and an honesty which makes this a very remarkable document.' -- TLS 'The Story of San Michele has style, wit, humour, great knowledge of the world, mixed with that strange simplicity of mind that is often the attribute of genius.' -- Observer 'Romantic, realistic, pitiful and enchanting, this is the record of a citadel of the soul ... all fantasy does it seem? Impossible? Absurd? But San Michele stands there on the hill for witness. A miracle? Well, every work of art is a miracle, and every beautiful thing the shrine of a realized dream.' -- Daily Telegraph 'A most interesting and lovable revelation, enchantingly described.' -- Punch 'I have found Dr Munthe's reminiscences intensely interesting and enjoyable, and it is hard to convey their charm of mingled pathos and humour or their multiplicity of appeal.' -- Illustrated London News 'It is an amazing book: wonderfully beautiful at times, appallingly horrible at others. For horrors he rivals Poe, recounting his gruesome experiences with a quiet simplicity which is strikingly effective.' -- Western Mail 'A beautifully written series of episodes from Paris to Capri, ...recounting the author's struggle to discover what he desires from life.' - Matthew Linnecar -- Geographical 20050301 'There is enough material here to furnish the writers of sensational short stories with plots for the rest of their lives.' -- Daily News 20050301
Some published memoirs are more than words on paper: they are encounters with their authors. Meet Axel Munthe, born in Sweden in 1857; subsequently a medical doctor with fashionable practices in Paris and Rome, also a volunteer during the cholera epidemic in Naples and in the aftermath of the earthquake that decimated Messina in 1908. A humorous and non-judgemental observer of men, Munthe was more than a medico; he brought an element of intuitive magic (later called "psychotherapy") to his practice. This recounting of his past as a peripatetic practitioner introduces us to a man driven by curiosity and wanderlust, touched by genius; many of the anecdotes could stand alone as short stories of depth and eye-blurring emotion. Under it all, leit-motif and anchor in a bohemian loner's life, Munthe's ongoing restoration of the ruined villa of Tiberius on Capri: the lighthouse of his life. This is an unlikely masterpiece: a perfectly wonderful book
'One of the most fascinating of books, wise in its appraisal of men, overflowing with humour and edged with irony, sharper than a surgeon's knife. There are chapters which are veritable de Maupassant plots in their concise and dramatic realism.' -- New York Herald Tribune 'Told with a power and an honesty which makes this a very remarkable document.' -- TLS 'The Story of San Michele has style, wit, humour, great knowledge of the world, mixed with that strange simplicity of mind that is often the attribute of genius.' -- Observer 'Romantic, realistic, pitiful and enchanting, this is the record of a citadel of the soul ... all fantasy does it seem? Impossible? Absurd? But San Michele stands there on the hill for witness. A miracle? Well, every work of art is a miracle, and every beautiful thing the shrine of a realized dream.' -- Daily Telegraph 'A most interesting and lovable revelation, enchantingly described.' -- Punch 'I have found Dr Munthe's reminiscences intensely interesting and enjoyable, and it is hard to convey their charm of mingled pathos and humour or their multiplicity of appeal.' -- Illustrated London News 'It is an amazing book: wonderfully beautiful at times, appallingly horrible at others. For horrors he rivals Poe, recounting his gruesome experiences with a quiet simplicity which is strikingly effective.' -- Western Mail 'A beautifully written series of episodes from Paris to Capri, ...recounting the author's struggle to discover what he desires from life.' - Matthew Linnecar -- Geographical 20050301 'There is enough material here to furnish the writers of sensational short stories with plots for the rest of their lives.' -- Daily News 20050301
Some published memoirs are more than words on paper: they are encounters with their authors. Meet Axel Munthe, born in Sweden in 1857; subsequently a medical doctor with fashionable practices in Paris and Rome, also a volunteer during the cholera epidemic in Naples and in the aftermath of the earthquake that decimated Messina in 1908. A humorous and non-judgemental observer of men, Munthe was more than a medico; he brought an element of intuitive magic (later called "psychotherapy") to his practice. This recounting of his past as a peripatetic practitioner introduces us to a man driven by curiosity and wanderlust, touched by genius; many of the anecdotes could stand alone as short stories of depth and eye-blurring emotion. Under it all, leit-motif and anchor in a bohemian loner's life, Munthe's ongoing restoration of the ruined villa of Tiberius on Capri: the lighthouse of his life. This is an unlikely masterpiece: a perfectly wonderful book
Journal Entry 2 by angi612uk at Sea front in Exmouth, Devon United Kingdom on Thursday, January 1, 2009
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