Season with Verona : Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and ... Goals!

by Parks, Tim

• ISBN13: 9781559706810
• ISBN10: 1559706813
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-08
• Publisher: Arcade Pub

Summary

After 20 years of living in Italy, Tim Parks, whom Joseph Brodsky, has called "the nest British author working today," spent a full year following the fortunes-and misfortunes-of the Verona football-oops! Soccer-club. Here is his rollicking report. Fro Udine to Catania, from San Siro to the Olimpico, traveling with the fans and the players from the tip to the toe of Italy, Tim Parks offers a highly personal account of his relationship with a country, its people, and its national sport.The fans, as always are accused of vulgarity, racism, and violence.The police are ambiguous, the journeys exhausting, the referees unforgivable, the anecdotes hilarious.In a world stripped of idealism and increasingly bereft of religion, Parks suggests that soccer offers a new and fiercely ironic way of engaging with the sacred.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Facci Sognare	1	(54)
Giove Pluvio	55	(17)
Rigore	72	(15)
La Partita delle Fede	87	(14)
Aborti	101	(15)
I Magnagati	116	(13)
Al Vincitore	129	(15)
Numbers	144	(17)
Il Verdetto del Campo	161	(12)
Incanto	173	(13)
Calendario	186	(16)
Lecce	202	(22)
La Befana	224	(10)
Scaramanzia	234	(14)
Magic	248	(12)
Insulti	260	(10)
I Più-mati	270	(8)
Puliero	278	(10)
Moo-too Moo-too	288	(10)
Paranoia	298	(8)
Latin Lover	306	(11)
Protests	317	(10)
San Siro	327	(8)
Qwerty	335	(9)
CD Rom	344	(9)
Caporetto	353	(13)
Credere, Obbedire, Combattere	366	(10)
Elections	376	(8)
Napoli	384	(13)
'Abandon all hope...'	397	(8)
Commedia dell'Arte	405	(10)
Il Giorno del Giudizio	415	(9)
Complications	424	(7)
Reggio	431	(16)
Postscript	447