Iain Sinclair Ordre des livres

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, and madness in post-WWII London. Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, his boss and landlady, Coffin Ada, sends him to retrieve some rare books, one of which, Dennis discovers, should not exist. A London Walk by Rev. Thomas Hampole is a fictitious book that appears in a real novel by another author. Yet A London Walk is physically there in his hands, nonetheless. Coffin Ada tells Dennis the book comes from the other London, the Great When, a version of the city that is beyond time. In the Great When, epochs blend and realities and unrealities blur, while concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous and terrible beings. But, Coffin Ada tells Dennis, if he does not return the book to this other London, he will be killed. So begins Dennis' adventure in Long London. Delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers, Dennis finds himself at the center of an explosive series of events that may endanger both Londons. Mystical, hilarious, and magnificently imagined, The Great When is an unforgettable introduction to the consciousness-altering world of Long London.

Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of photographer John Deakin in a bold fictionalisation.

A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empireA New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021‘Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.’ Barry MilesFrom the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory , a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by – and in reaction to – an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab. The historic thirst for gold and the establishment of sprawling coffee plantations leave terrible wounds on virgin territory.In Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.‘ The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.’ TLS

Iain Sinclair erkundet in diesem literarischen Spaziergang die Verbindung zwischen dem heutigen London und William Blakes Visionen. Er analysiert Blakes Poetik und deren Beziehung zu konkreten Orten, während er Einflüsse von Emanuel Swedenborg aufdeckt und Parallelen zu anderen Flaneuren zieht. Sinclairs Werk ist eine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit Londons Geheimnissen.

The final chapter in Sinclair's life-long odyssey through the streets of the Big Smoke

Fast alle seiner zahlreichen Bücher hat Iain Sinclair erwandert und dem Boden abgerungen. Dabei hat er zahlreiche Beobachtungen insbesondere von Stadtlandschaften gemacht und deren Veränderung dokumentiert. Zentrum seiner in England längst Klassiker gewordenen psychogeografischen Bücher ist London. Ein Buch aber bildet die Ausnahme: In Der Rand des Orizonts verlässt er die Stadt und macht sich gemeinsam mit seiner Frau auf, eine tief bewegende Wanderung zu unternehmen. Er durchmisst Flucht und Leid des Dichters John Clare, der sich mehr als 150 Jahre vor den beiden auf derselben Strecke von seiner Schwermut und der Sehnsucht nach seiner drei Jahre zuvor verstorbenen Ehefrau zu heilen versuchte, aus der Nervenheilanstalt ausbrach und in einem Gewaltmarsch in sein Heimatdorf zurückwanderte. Die physische Anstrengung Sinclairs, das Erleben der über die Zeiten veränderten Landschaft, die Lektüre Clares in Gedanken machen diese autobiografisch-biografische Recherche zu einem tief bewegenden Erlebnis.

Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. In The Last London, he strikes out on a series of solitary walks and collaborative expeditions to make a final reckoning with a capital stretched beyond recognition. Here is a mesmerising record of secret scholars and whispering ghosts. Of disturbing encounters. Night hospitals. Pits that become cameras. Mole Man labyrinths. And privileged swimming pools, up in clouds, patrolled by surveillance helicopters. Where now are the myths, the ultimate fictions of a many times revised city? Travelling from the pinnacle of the Shard to the outer limits of the London Overground system at Croydon and Barking, from the Thames Estuary to the future ruins of Olympicopolis, Sinclair reflects on where London begins and where it ends. A memoir, a critique and a love letter, The Last London stands as a delirious conclusion to a truly epic project.

"The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. It is a route haunted by the unquiet voices of the city's many literary ghosts. With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp--plus inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps--he embarks on a marathon circumnavigation at street level, tracking the necklace of garages, fish farms, bakeries, convenience cafés, cycle-repair shops and Minder lock-ups which enclose inner London."--back cover.

Folded page panoramas: one side "North"; verso "South."