Decapolis EPUB
by David Constantine, Jacques Reda, Agust Borgbor Sverrisson, Empar Moliner, Aldo Nove, Dalbor Simpraga, Amanda Michalopoulou, Emil Hakl, Larissa Boehning, Arnon Grunberg
Edited by Maria Crossan
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Decapolis is a book which imagines the city otherwise.
Bringing together ten writers from across Europe, it offers snapshots of their native cities, freezing for a moment the characters and complexities that define them.
Ten cities: diverse, incompatible, contradictory - in everything from language to landscape.
In Amsterdam every Friday night, a lonely woman cooks for her men - a circle of middle-aged bachelors.
In Barcelona, a self-regarding poet tries to capture the essence of the city in an eleven-word lyric.
In Reykjavik, an unemployed journalist wanders through the deserted buildings of the newspaper he once wrote for.
In all cases, these are cities in states of transition: Zagreb in the shadow of the Balkan conflict; Manchester on the cusp of social and economic change; Berlin with half its industrial buildings abandoned like the Mary Celeste.
The ultimate 'untranslatability' of these cities' experiences is never in question, and yet through these fractured, isolated glimpses - chance encounters, snatches of conversation, local TV bulletins - something quite unlikely begins to emerge: a commonality grounded in the fleeting and the momentary, a continuum, perhaps, of urban experience.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Comma Press
- Publication Date:26/10/2006
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- ISBN:9781910974858
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Comma Press
- Publication Date:26/10/2006
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- ISBN:9781910974858