Five Doubts

Mary Caponegro's latest exploration of narrative possibilities takes as a point of departure five arresting images from Italian art and culture: a Verrocchio painting, an Etruscan tomb, a Roman mosaic, a Renaissance manuscript and a Tombola board — five images that give rise to voices haunted by desire, doubt and death. Within these fictional meditations on Antiquity, the Renaissance, and contemporary life, she creates a tension between spirituality and materiality, between nature and culture, leveling artifice to blood and bone, as the first stage of a complex metamorphosis.

• Author
• Mary Caponegro

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 136

• Publisher
• Marsilio Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781568860596

• Genres
• literature, fiction

• Release date
• 1998