The book has been included in The New Yorker Best Books of 2022. fhttps://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2022
Marius Kociejowski is a poet, essayist and travel writer. Among the books he has written are The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey (Eland, 2016) and a sequel, The Pigeon Wars of Damascus. He lives in London, England where, until recently, he worked as an antiquarian bookseller.
'To write about Naples, you really need to be a poet - or, even better, an antiquarian bookseller. Mr Kociejowski is both and has produced a delightful work that is as eclectic, labyrinthine, ironic and shocking as the city itself.'The Economist; 'Kociejowski's book (which takes its title from the Sicilian proverb 'Never fear Rome - the serpent lies coiled in Naples) is one of the best I have read on the ramshackle Mediterranean outpost (and I have read a few). In pages of scholarly but engagingly droll prose, Kociejowski conjures a death-hunted city, where the meaning of life is everywhere connected to what it is to die.'Ian Thomson, The Spectator; 'Marius Kociejowski is one of life's great questioners [and] The Serpent Coiled in Naples takes on some of the largest questions that come with searching for this stupendous city's soul...The experience is more of an intellectual joyride than a standard history.' Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker
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