The Spirit of Mediterranean Places

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by Michael Butor,

Translated by Lydia Davis

Northwestern University Press

Due/Published November 1997, 147 pages, paper

ISBN 0810160528

It's not new. It's been around in various editions over the years and is just now being reissued, but if Butor, French avant-gardish sensibilities, or this part of the world are of interest, you might try this. Butor gives us pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, Ferrara, and Mantua, as well as an extended essay on Egypt, where, as a young man, he taught French in a secondary school.