form Nostalgia's Nose single work   radio play   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Nostalgia's Nose
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Adapted from the novel Baroque Memories, Christopher, an Australian student of the baroque, wanders and photographs the serpentine streets and elaborate facades of the city of Lecce, the Baroque capital of Southern Italy. He is drawn to the lost migrant Nostalgia, trying to reconnect with her city of origin. She is interested in an encounter with the photographer, but chance meetings in this maze of streets and piazzas are always difficult to arrange and are constantly frustrated by encounters with other fantastic figures who cross their paths: Grazioni, the inventor of the camera profonda; the bald Contessa von Economico; Philophilus the pedantic tour guide. Thoughts, destinies, casual meetings, erotic adventures are here determined by the physical and architectural properties of a place. Memories belong not to the past but shadow us into the future, the might have beens we cannot leave behind. In the crumbling city of the past, surfaces are dwelt upon-faces, time worn facades, clouds, tumbling seas, random sounds'. (ABC Classic FM website)

Production Details

  • Broadcast on Soundstage, ABC Classic FM, on 26 April 2000.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Formes Circulaires: A Journey Around the Radio Works of Paul Carter Andrew McLennan , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 2 2006; (p. 81-102)
Discusses the broadcasting of Paul Carter's radio plays on several ABC Radio programs.
Formes Circulaires: A Journey Around the Radio Works of Paul Carter Andrew McLennan , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 2 2006; (p. 81-102)
Discusses the broadcasting of Paul Carter's radio plays on several ABC Radio programs.
Last amended 1 Feb 2007 14:25:14
Settings:
  • c
    Italy,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X