New Translation of Works of Cristina Campo

The Unforgivable: And Other Writings

by  Cristina Campo  (Author), Alex Andriesse  (Translator), Kathryn Davis  (Introduction)

(New York Review Books Classics, New York, 2024). Available on Amazon.

Finally there appears an English translation of the major essays of Cristina Campo. This edition consists of the book I had previously reviewed (“The Unforgiveable”) plus several additional essays. For a discussion of this volume see my review of the original text.

The proper recognition of Cristina Campo by Catholics is long overdue. As Kathryn Davis writes in her introduction to this book:

“It was also while living in Rome that Campo – who had grown up in a nominally Catholic household – underwent a religious conversion, her newfound relationship to Catholicism as uncompromising as was her relationship to everything else in her life. Together with the philosopher and religious historian, Elemire Zolla, she edited the 1963 anthology I Mistici dell’Occidente and was among the members of Una Voce, an international group fierecely opposed to the liturgical changes made by the Second Vatican Council – changes she castigated as “leprosy.” Christ’s parables, the Gospels in general, Scripture, had always been mainsprings of her life and work; following her conversion they became the prime undercurrent.”

To read this book is to undertake a magical voyage of discovery!