April 7, 2007 Nilanjana S Roy No more Aurelio Zen Michael Dibdin died in Seattle this week at the age of 60–The Telegraph has an intelligent tribute: Dibdin deliberately tapped into British middle-class fantasies in the Aurelio Zen series. The appeal of the books lay partly in his decision to set each one in a different part of Italy (starting in the beautiful medieval city of Perugia), but also in the character of Zen himself: Dibdin invented him as an outsider, coming to Perugia as a stranger, much as Didbin himself had done when he arrived to teach English at the university there in the late 1970s. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintMoreTumblrLike this:Like Loading...
