Ken (PHT) Schles: Night Walk
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- Kategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu, alakategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu
- Materiaali: Sidottu
- Kustantaja: STEIDL
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9783869306926
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- Katseltu: 28 krt
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Kuvaus (145 sanaa, lukemiseen kuluu n. minuutti)
Twenty-five years after his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the evening air of an irretrievable Downtown New York as he saw and experienced it. Night Walk is a substantive and intimate chronicle of New Yorks last pre-Internet bohemian outpost, a stream-of consciousness portrayal that peels back layers of petulance and squalor to expose the frisson and striving of a life lived amongst the rubble. Here Schles embodies the flaneur as Susan Sontag defines it, as a connoisseur of empathy cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. We see in Night Walk a new and revelatory Ulysses for the twenty-first century: a searching tale of wonder and desire, life and love in the dying hulk of a ruined American city.