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European Romanticism gave birth to visions of a new world and a new man. Inspired by the ideas of the French Revolution, early 19th-century writers attacked the old estates. In Italy, two poets were particularly characteristic of this revolutionary period. Ugo Foscolo dreamed of giving the Olympian gods a new home in his divided homeland, while Giacomo Leopardi wrote a series of elegies as beautiful as night-black about the discontent of culture. Both shared the experience of an era that had gone out of joint, and both can be read as early spokesmen for the modern experience of the death of God.

Here, Foscolo and Leopardi are presented for the first time in a collected volume in Swedish, translated by Ingvar Björkeson and with a foreword by Anders Cullhed.

Title: In the Shadow of the Cypresses
Author: Giacomo Leopardi & Ugo Foscolo
Translator: Ingvar Björkeson
Language: Swedish

Designer: Oskar Aspman
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
Published: June 2007

ISBN: 9789189633148

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Alastor Press is a Swedish independent publisher with a focus on literature that moves in the dark, esoteric and artistically distinctive. The publisher is known for its careful editions of both classic and contemporary works in areas such as decadence, symbolism, horror and philosophical fiction. With an eye for the obscure and cult, Alastor Press highlights writing that challenges, seduces and lingers.