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Cargando... The walker : on finding and losing yourself in the modern city (edición 2020)por Matthew Beaumont
Información de la obraThe Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City por Matthew Beaumont
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() A collection of essays by an english literature academic loosely concerned with walking and its relationship to, well just about everything. Particularly liked the one on 'Where does the body begin?' The answer being the big toe, being essential to bipedalism, the consequent ability of humans to use tools and therefore to develop a bigger brain. The big toe - the reason for human civilisation. I really wanted to like this more. It is a worthy and well-researched piece of work, which explores various guises of the flaneur throughout literature, but it reads as a very dry academic text, with copious footnotes and that air of ivory-tower floweriness of language. A book like this needs, for a general audience, some interaction between the author, the subject and the reader - which does come, but frustratingly only in the final chapter when the author loosens the bonds of academic strictures and dares to insert himself into the text, as he himself walks the city. This is what was needed throughout; other successful books which manage this transition from dry academic tome to accessible general text should have provided a template for what would have worked. There is no denying the research and intelligence behind the book. It just needed a good editor to request a re-write for a more general audience. This book, I fear, is destined for the dusty shelves of libraries and the studies of academics only. Which is a shame. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Whether one considers Dickens's insomniac night-time perambulations or restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today's neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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