BOLD VENTURES de CHARLOTTE VAN DEN BROECK

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BOLD VENTURES
CHARLOTTE VAN DEN BROECK
Idioma: INGLÉS
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ISBN: 9781473582958>
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A spellbinding new talent explores the dark side of creativity through the stories of thirteen tragic architectsBold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclairs psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyers anti-biography of DH Lawrence Olivia Laing, GuardianIn thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects - architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire built in seventeenth-century France to a theatre that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC., and an eerily sinking swimming pool in her hometown of Turnhout.  Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Charles Darwin to art history, stories from her own life and popular culture, patterns gradually come into focus, as Van den Broeck asks: what is that strange life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator? Threaded through each story, and in prose of great essayistic subtlety, Van den Broeck meditates on the question of suicide - what Albert Camus called the one truly serious philosophical problem - in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking new ground in literary non-fiction, as well as providing solace and consolation - and a note of caution - to anyone who has ever risked their hand at a creative act.What a sensible, intelligent and beautiful book Stefan Hertmans, author of War and Turpentine

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