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The Hospitality of Art—The Last Bulwark against the Hostility of History in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts

Isabelle Keller-Privat

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Patrick Leigh Fermor’s travel narrative A Time of Gifts stages the liminal condition of the future writer leaving England in 1933 and aiming to reach Constantinople on foot. As he crosses Central Europe his digressions into medieval, Renaissance and modern European history function as distorted mirrors to the present-day history of political hostility. Forcing us to adjust our focus through repeated forms of displacement, Fermor allows us to share the narrator’s vulnerable position and to embark on his quest for poetic, pictorial and historical fragments that spur us to look beyond “the long night ahead” (TG 357).

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Keller-Privat, I. (2023). The Hospitality of Art—The Last Bulwark against the Hostility of History in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts. https://doi.org/10.4000/viatica.2914

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Tahun Terbit: 2023
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.4000/viatica.2914
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