To Walk Alone in the Crowd
Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
Festland Spanien
- Verlag PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- ISBN13 9781788161954
- ISBN10 1788161955
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Sammlung GARDNERS
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2022
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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EssaysTo Walk Alone in the Crowd
Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
Festland Spanien
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Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis etrangerI want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Munoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, Paris, London and New York, where the past and the present live side by side in the literature of newspaper headlines, billboards, casual glances and overheard conversation.
This is the digital metropolis, captured in notebooks, recorded on the iPhone, where Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Fernando Pessoa and Walter Benjamin step beside us, all of us writing the unfinished poem of the crowded city.