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Dacia Maraini. La seduzione dell'altrove. Milan. Rizzoli. 2010. 174 pages. euro17.50. ISBN 978-88-17-04367-0
Always curious about the Other, Dacia Maraini opens La seduzione dell'altrove, a collection of short pieces, with a meditation on why we leave the comforts of our home to travel. Why our fascination with things foreign, exotic? It derives, she suggests, from a "love of the different," "the seduction of elsewhere." Her own desire for travel was early instilled by her mother and father whose wanderlust took her to Japan when she was one year old. [Editorial note: See her essay "Dear Japan" on page 30 of this issue.] Only later, when she returned...