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Cargando... Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will (2009)por Judith Schalansky
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Med sina poetiska, lätt absurda berättelser kan ”Atlas över avlägsna öar” föra tankarna till Italo Calvinos ”De osynliga städerna”, där Marco Polo berättar för Kublai Khan om alla städer han besökt under sina resor. Fast här handlar det alltså om fastlandets fotnoter. Calvino hade älskat den. Xavier de Maistre också. Judith Schalansky has chosen to incubate the minds of people who map islands. Curled up behind their eyeballs, she has let herself be carried around the globe from Lonely island in the Arctic to Deception in the Antarctic. Although she travels like Jules Verne, she describes each lonely deceptive landfall like Jorge Luis Borges. . . The writing is mercurial and bewitching. Almost as good as a map. In her foreword, Schalansky describes the act of finger-walking a map as an "erotic gesture". Cartophiles will know instantly what she means: not that there is a sexual frisson involved in map-reading, but that the distant longing for a landscape is usually far greater than the satisfaction gained by reaching it (eroticism's essence being anticipation rather than consummation). "There is no more poetic book than an atlas," Schalansky writes, and her book makes a magnificent case for the atlas to be recognised as literature, worthy of its original name – theatrum orbis terrarum, "the theatre of the world". Readers expecting a feelgood gazetteer of romantic destinations will be brought up short by the subtitle to Judith Schalansky's extraordinary and excellent book: 'Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will'. A recent bestseller in her native Germany (she designed and typeset it herself), Atlas of Remote Islands is a tribute to her early fascination with cartography and the geographical restrictions on travel that were in place in her youth in East Germany. In the preface she maps out her formative notions of impassability and wanderlust, remoteness and colonisation, and the result is a phantasmagoric mosaic of human frustration and brinkmanship from Pingelap to Pukapuka, and beyond.
For each island, this book provides information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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y las historias que han configurado su acervo local. Con sus impresionantes mapas a todo color y su aire de misteriosa aventura, Atlas de islas remotas es perfecto para el viajero romántico que hay en todos nosotros.
««El paraíso es una isla. Y el infierno también. O al menos eso dice Judith Schalansky en la introducción a su encantador, espeluznante y espléndido Atlas de islas remotas»
The New Yorker
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