You don't have to like Capri. Brecht for one judged this island is a "damned blue lemonade". And Rilke lamented over "too many mountains in too little space".
A daytrip from Naples must be torture these days. Thus you hardly will contract the famous Capromania, a rare disease which Yvonne Meyer-Lohr is suffering from. She not only dreamed of the island but also about a book which would portray the island the way she feels about it. In a Munich shop window she discovered a picture on which the sea and the Grotto weren't blue. She won the black-and white photographer Umberto D'Aniello for her project. With Claretta Cerio, the 80 year-old, Capri native writer she reeled in the voice of the book. In Capri the name Cerio is legend. Her husband Edwin was himself writer and mayor. Claretta Cerio knew Axel Munthe. She also knew Curzio Malaparte ("Kaputt"), who lived in a house the shape of an iron.
"Capri" (Prestel Publishing) is arrival, stay and departure. More than a substitute for a vacation.
