194. The First Fascist
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194. The First Fascist mentions The Pike, Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes Hallett, Salambo by Gustave Flaubert, The Pike by Lucy Hughes Hallett, and D'Annunzio with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
I would say that if people in this country in Britain have heard of him, it's because they have read the brilliant, brilliant prize winning biography…
He was taking it from from his reading of Flaubert's Salambo, in which there is a Holocaust, a human sacrifice.
I would say that if people in this country in Britain have heard of him, it's because they have read the brilliant, brilliant prize winning biography…
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“The biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio by Lucy Hughes Hallett, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2012, is credited with putting D'Annunzio on the literary and historical map for Anglophone readers.”
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“D'Anozio wanted to light a great Holocaust, a great fire from which the sparks would fly all over Italy and all over Europe, taking inspiration from Flaubert's Salambo.”
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“It's a book that kind of reinvents the art of biography, isn't it, Tom? It really is.”
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“There's lots of horrific things in your book about D'Annunzio's behavior. But to me, this is one of the worst, that he returns to Italy, to a country that's sort of trembling on the brink of entering the Great War.”
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The host mentions 'The Pike' to highlight how Lucy Hughes Hallett's biography has brought Gabriele D'Annunzio's complex character and historical si…
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