Collected Essays. By Hanif Kureishi by Hanif Kureishi

Author:Hanif Kureishi [Kureishi, Hanif]
Language: zho
Format: epub
Tags: #genre
ISBN: 9780571249831
Amazon: 0571249833
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

26 FEBRUARY 1987

To Florence by train. The fast and comfortable Italian trains and the businessmen around me in their sharp clothes. The care they take: everything matches; not a garment is worn or shapeless. What surprises me is the affluence and attractiveness of northern Italy and that despite Thatcher’s talk about the boom in British industry, compared with this place it’s in desperate straits.

In Florence I do more interviews. This publicising of films is an odd business. I have no Italian money and little grasp of what is going on. Norboto, the publicist, takes me from city to city. When I am thirsty he buys me a Coke; when I am hungry he fetches me a sandwich. He takes me to the hotel and in the morning he wakes me up. It reminds me of being a kid and being out with my father. You veer in these publicity tours between feeling you are important, a minor celebrity, someone to be listened to, and the predominant feeling that you’re a kind of large parcel, a property at the disposal of a nervous distributor with which things can be done, films sold and money made. You hope in return that you’ll get a decent view of the Grand Canal from the window of your Venice hotel.

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