The Spirit of Mediterranean Places
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ISBN: 0910395179 / Publisher: Marlboro Press, January 1986
Describes the author's travels in Europe and the Near East and presents his observations on the cultures of these regions
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This book gathers French writer Michel Butor's essays on his travel in the Mediterranean. Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an extended essay on Egypt--where, when he was 24, Butor spent a year teaching French in a secondary school. Michel Butor is one of the leading exponents of the avant-garde writing that emerged in France in the 1950s .
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