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Londra non è una città. I suoi vicoli sono vene, i suoi parchi polmoni. Nella nebbia, le strade di ciottoli brillano di sudore, mentre le bocche degli idranti gettano acqua come sangue da un'arteria. Le sue vecchie mura sembrano spalle enormi. I ponti che traversano il Tamigi gambe tozze e arcuate, e le luci di Westminster o le insegne di Trafalgar Square occhi sempre aperti. Negli anni c'è chi l'ha raffigurata come un giovane che sgranchisce le braccia, quasi si fosse appena svegliato, e altri che l'hanno paragonata a un mostro dalla testa enorme e dalle membra sottili. Comunque la si guardi, una cosa è certa: Londra non è una città, è un animale in costante mutazione. Partendo da questa irrefutabile verità, Peter Ackroyd, londinese di East Acton, ha concepito il più ambizioso e originale dei progetti: ricostruire il corpo di una terra che ha quasi cinquanta milioni di anni. La sua "Londra" è un saggio storico, un romanzo, un racconto gotico e, insieme, un incredibile trattato erudito.
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- Pagine: 690
- Data di uscita: 15-06-2017
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Nobody can doubt the incredible amount of research the author collated to put this mammoth of a book together. His subject matter is fascinating and rewarding. However, Ackroyd's writing style is very particular and surely a matter of taste - unfortunately this reviewer finds it annoyingly loose, tr Leggi tutto
London: The Biography is a junkshop of the heart, more or less: Peter Ackroyd's heart, or the heart of anyone else who has fallen in love with London's 2000 year history, its transformations, its theatricality, its poverty, its wit, its preposterousness, its influence on the English language. This i Leggi tutto
Atrociously bad. It could be turned into a drinking game -- drink any time Ackroyd uses fallacious logic or uses a completely unrelated and non-universal example to "prove" an absurd point. Of course, then you'd have alcohol poisoning by the end of the first chapter. If his thesis were that London, a Leggi tutto
London has always possessed the presence of a character (and a major character at that), in the quite brilliant novels Ackroyd has chosen to set there. His love of and fascination for the city has always been apparent. Here he demonstrates his scholarly expertise on a subject that clearly beguiles h Leggi tutto
What a book. Ackroyd has created the ultimate portrait of London as a living, breathing entity, not just a collection of old buildings and monuments. Rather than a dry chronological trawl through the history of our nation's capital, instead Ackroyd chooses themes and explores them through time and s Leggi tutto
This book is a massive undertaking, both for the author and the reader, and the amount of extraordinary, fascinating and brilliant detail in here is mind-boggling. It pulls from an awe-inspiring number of primary sources to provide the most delectable quotes on everything from pubs to fashion to mur Leggi tutto
I have never been in London, but someday in future I would love to visit. . Being a student of English literature, I was always fascinated about this city- the city where Shakespeare lived, wrote and performed; where the best english poetry and dramas had been written and sung; the city of an empire Leggi tutto
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