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Cargando... The Vanishing Map: A Journey from L.A. to Tokyo to the Heart of Europepor Stephen Barber
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The title is a tad misleading (surprisingly, as the author is otherwise quite precise) - the Heart of Europe takes up most of this 150-page book, with a brief start in L.A. and a concluding segment in Japan. Barber is erudite, without being pompous; the story is not the fast read its size might imply. Recommended especially for those with an interest in modern (Central) European history. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map that plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality flight across this territory reveals the surfaces of things, a landscape made by war and technological advances. Coming back to earth and to his own body, Stephen Barber follows the map from city to city. He discovers how cities, once densely layered with a civilization's history of follies and obsessions, are increasingly oblivious places, accelerating the erasure of their own histories, forgetting themselves. Barber's journey becomes a profound meditation on the future of the city and the role of memory in our lives.Dazzlingly written, erudite and, by turns funny, elegiac and horrific, The Vanishing Map explores what cities were, are and will be. Deeper than this, it questions how memory - personal, urban, national and global memory - can survive. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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