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Chargement... The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravennapar Tim Parks
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Tim Parks kennen we als begenadigd auteur van verscheidene werken over het leven op z'n Italiaans, als romanschrijver en als vertaler. Hier doet hij het verslag van de voetreis die hij met Eleonora (zijn sinds enkele jaren nieuwe partner) heeft ondernomen in de voetsporen van Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1849 moest Garibaldi de verdediging van de Romeinse republiek opgeven onder toenemende militaire druk van de Franse legers die in deze de paus kwamen steunen. Met een paar duizend man vertrok Garibaldi voor een dramatische tocht met aankomst in Cesenatico waarbij hij voortdurend op de hielen werd gezeten door vooral Oostenrijkse legereenheden. De tocht van Tim en Eleonora langs weinig begaanbare paden vormt daarbij natuurlijk in zekere zin een afspiegeling van Garibaldi en zijn Anita. Gelukkig houdt Parks dit wel wat beperkt. De afwisseling tussen hun hedendaagse ervaringen met deze van de Garibaldini vormt een mooi weefsel doorheen het boek. Aan de hand van verschillende getuigenissen van medestanders van Garibaldi wordt een en ander vrij levendig om mee te volgen. Enkele foto's en wat meer gedetailleerde kaarten hadden niet misstaan. Maar goed, met Google Earth erbij is hieraan vlug verholpen. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Beloved guide to Italian culture and history Tim Parks traces Garibaldi's famous journey across the Apennines in search of the country's past and present. In the summer of 1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary hero of guerrilla wars and future architect of a united Italy, was finally forced to concede defeat to the French in his defense of a revolutionary Roman republic. But determined to turn defeat into moral victory, he set out from Rome with 4,000 men one July evening to continue the struggle for national independence. Hounded by both French and Austrian armies, he crossed the Italian Apennines and after endless skirmishes and adventures arrived in Ravenna a month later with just 250 survivors. Tim Parks, the author of four best-selling accounts of Italian life, retraced Garibaldi's steps in the summer of 2019. In The Hero's Way he delivers a superb travelogue that combines a memorable portrait of Garibaldi and the country before unification with Parks's own fine observations of contemporary Italian people, politics, customs, food, and landscape"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Yours truly would never, I hasten to add, have undertaken the kind of travel recounted in this book. While I also don't like what Parks disparages as conveyor-belt tourism, with crowds and queues, as independent travellers we like to visit cities and towns by rail, stopping occasionally for R&R in a village off the beaten track. Hiking is not for me, and that's why I enjoyed this book at a time when international travel is still so difficult. I would never want the blisters and sunburn; the hornets, wasps and menacing dogs; nor the uncertainty about getting a meal or a bed for the night. This is not a travel book that made me hanker for travel!
Parks is 'on a mission' to deal with two issues: firstly the revisionist theory that people did not really embrace Italian unity, which he says is disproven by the way people supported the volunteers. Yes, there were traitors and deserters, and Tuscany was not the friendly place he expected, but he won hearts and minds everywhere he went. He was the charismatic leader that Italy needed.
The second issue that Parks contests is that, contrary to popular mythmaking, Garibaldi was militarily and politically strategic. In Arezzo, Parks muses on Garibaldi's dilemma, how to end the retreat and their patriotic resistance into something that could lead to their goal of unification, and at the same time appeal to men to men who wanted to fight rather than endure the hard slog of forced marches.
Why people feel the need to knock heroes off their pillars, I don't know...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/05/03/the-heros-way-by-tim-parks/ ( )