Entry 34 · Book chapter 35
December 9 1943
A Sunday spent observing the palazzo neighborhood's blend of aristocratic grandeur and thriving working-class street life.
Themes
Reflections
Naples's unconscious class proximity
Lewis observes that in his neighbourhood the rich and poor live physically side by side — grand palazzi and one-room working-class households sharing the same buildings — while remaining almost entirely unconscious of one another.
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