num_pages: 147
description: This book gathers French writer Michel Butor's essays on his travel in the Mediterranean. Included are pieces on Cordova, Istanbul, Salonica, Delphi, Crete, and northern Italy, as well as an extended essay on Egypt--where, when he was 24, Butor spent a year teaching French in a secondary school. Michel Butor is one of the leading exponents of the avant-garde writing that emerged in France in the 1950s .
language: English
title: The Spirit of Mediterranean Places
titlecomplete: The Spirit of Mediterranean Places
genres: Memoir, France, Travel
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Marlboro Press