Five doubts
By: Mary Caponegro.
Publisher: Marsilio Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Experimental fiction, American; Artists -- Fiction; Art -- Fiction
Description: Mary Caponegro's latest exploration of narrative possibilities takes as a point of departure five arresting images from Italian art and culture: a Verrocchio painting, an Etruscan tomb, a Roman mosaic, a Renaissance manuscript and a Tombola board - five images that give rise to voices haunted by desire, doubt and death.

Within these fictional meditations on Antiquity, the Renaissance, and contemporary life, she creates a tension between spirituality and materiality, between nature and culture, leveling artifice to blood and bone, as the first stage of a complex metamorphosis.