Capri

:See also Capri (disambiguation)

Capri in literature

The book that spawned the 19th century fascination with Capri in France, Germany, and England was Entdeckung der Blauen Grotte auf der Insel Capri by the German painter and writer August Kopisch, in which he describes his 1826 stay on Capri and his (re)discovery of the Blue Grotto.

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Entdeckung der Blauen Grotte auf der Insel Capri - German - August Kopisch - 1826

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Capri is also the setting for The Lotus Eater, a short-story by Somerset Maugham. In the story, the protagonist from Boston comes to Capri on a holiday and is so enchanted by the place he gives up his job and decides to spend the rest of his life in leisure at Capri.

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The Lotus Eater - Somerset Maugham

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Shirley Hazzard, winner of the 2003 National Book Award (for the novel The Great Fire), wrote the memoir Green on Capri (2000) about her reminiscences of Graham Greene and Capri.

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Shirley Hazzard - 2003 - National Book Award - Novel - Graham Greene

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Norman Douglas, a heighbour of Greene, wrote travel books and Fabio Giordano's Relation of Capri (1906).

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Norman Douglas - Fabio Giordano's Relation of Capri

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Writer and Swedish royal physician Axel Munthe (1857–1949) built the Villa San Michele near Anacapri. His memoirs, The Story of San Michele were published in 1929.

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Axel Munthe - Villa San Michele - Memoir

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Jacques_d'Adelsward-Fersen wrote the novel Et le feu s?èteignit sur le mer (1910) about Capri and its residents in the early 20th century, which caused a minor scandal as it was a roman à clef. Fersen's life on Capri was also the subject of Roger Peyrefitte's L'Exile de Capri.

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Jacques_d'Adelsward-Fersen - Et le feu s?èteignit sur le mer - 20th century - Roman à clef - Roger Peyrefitte - L'Exile de Capri

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What particularly attracted Douglas, Fersen, August Graf von Platen, and other artists at the time to Capri and Naples was not just the beautiful landscape, but also the opportunity to live out their homosexual leanings. Local fishermen's sons were usually available for sexual adventures, and this was tolerated by the Capri populace.

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August Graf von Platen - Homosexual

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In fact, as described by Peyrefitte in his carefully researched novel, Fersen had at times a strained relationship with the locals—not because his lover, Nino Cesarini, was a teenage boy, but because Nino was from Rome and not from Capri, which violated the pride of the locals (and also hurt them economically, as Fersen's money and his house was effectively tied to a Roman and not a local boy).

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Nino Cesarini - Rome

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