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Pagan Light

Pagan Light

Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri

by Jamie James
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/03/2020

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Isolated and arrestingly beautiful, the island of Capri has been a refuge for renegade artists and writers fleeing the strictures of conventional society from the time of Augustus, who bought the island in 29 B.C. after defeating Antony and Cleopatra, to the early twentieth century, when the poet and novelist Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen was in exile there after being charged with corrupting minors, to the 1960s, when Truman Capote spent time on the island.

We also meet the Marquis de Sade, Goethe, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Compton Mackenzie, Rilke, Lenin, and Gorky, among other astonishingly vivid characters.

Grounded in a deep intimacy with Capri and full of captivating anecdotes, Jamie James's Pagan Light tells how a tiny island served as a wildly permissive haven for people-queer, criminal, sick, marginalized, and simply crazy-who had nowhere else to go.

ISBN:
9781250251145
9781250251145
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-03-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Picador
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
202x125x23.11mm
Jamie James

Jamie James is the author of several books of nonfiction, including The Glamour of Strangeness. He has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic, among other publications, and he previously served as the American arts correspondent for The Times (London).

He has lived in Indonesia since 1999 and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Grant.

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