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London Orbital

A piedi attorno alla metropoli

By Iain Sinclair, Luca Fusari (Translator), Nicoletta Vallorani (Editor)

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| Paperback | 9788842813392

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Il percorso: un pellegrinaggio circolare lungo la M25. La visione: Londra come metropoli di architetture scomparse, tracce invisibili, apparenze spettrali. Il tema centrale: la disperata decadenza della cultura e della civiltà britannica negli anni del trionfo di Tony Blair e dell’ideologia del New Continue

Il percorso: un pellegrinaggio circolare lungo la M25. La visione: Londra come metropoli di architetture scomparse, tracce invisibili, apparenze spettrali. Il tema centrale: la disperata decadenza della cultura e della civiltà britannica negli anni del trionfo di Tony Blair e dell’ideologia del New Labour. Le guide: Dickens, Stoker, Wells, Conrad, Ballard, Moorcock. London Orbital è un testo sulla città prima ancora che un viaggio intorno a Londra: un itinerario attraverso il luogo in cui viviamo e che al tempo stesso immaginiamo. Dove si vive e si muore, lasciando sempre una traccia

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  • Meandering round the M25

    London Orbital by Iain Sinclair 500pp, Granta, £25 For a couple of years now, the writer, critic and deeply lovable polymath Kevin Jackson has not returned my phone calls. The possible reasons were worrying, and in descending order of probability the ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A walk on the wacky side

    Iain Sinclair is one of those distinctive, oft-name-checked writers you're supposed to have read even though you probably haven't. I hadn't either until London Orbital and, being as it's long, dense, wordy and at £25 in hardback pretty expensive, I e ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • Libri Italiani
  • Paperback 575 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 8842813397
  • ISBN-13: 9788842813392
  • Publisher: Il Saggiatore
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2008
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