Petr Král

Loving Venice

Trans. Christopher Moncrieff
Loving Venice Loving Venice
Pushkin Press, 2013, 96 pp
Language: English
Prose

For lovers of Venice, Petr Král’s Loving Venice (Aimer Venise) is a poetic and deeply-felt portrait of this eternally fascinating city, that delves behind its grand façades.

Petr Král’s encounter with the city of Doges is a love-letter to a place that arouses strong and often contradictory emotions but rarely indifference. His ethereal prose carries us through the floating city as if exploring the body of a familiar, yet inscrutable, lover: “Even in the depths of her private, inner frisson, Venice is still open to the world’s great perspectives, enticing them into her secret recesses and borne along by the touch of their breath.”

Petr Král’s Loving Venice is translated from the French by Christopher Moncrieff and published by Pushkin Press.

Pushkin Press, 2013, 96 pp
Language: English