A Man of Character

By Paola Capriolo

At its most straightforward, A Man of Character is the story of Erasmo Stiler, an engineer who inherits a derelict villa and destroys himself attempting to transform its garden into 'a sort of Versailles' in an attempt to tame chaos. It is a book about the relationship between art and nature, the importance of living one's life as a moral project and the dangers of demanding of others that their behaviour be totally rational. It confirms Capriolo's place in the great tradition of European novelists for whom a human life is also a work of art.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852426055
• ISBN13: 9781852426057
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.6" x 5.3"