Los Angeles Times Book Prize ろさんぜるす・たいむず ぶっくしょう
第5回(1984年)
受賞者
6名A theory book that rethinks the relationship between economics and cities by arguing that cities generate wealth.
It revisits the structure of the economy from the city outward rather than from the nation inward.
A novel that moves from Prague to London and follows interior lives shaped by love and political pressure.
Private love always sits in the same room as historical weight.
A biography of Kafka that presents intellectual work and the shadow of anxiety as intertwined forces in his life.
It traces the contours of tension and isolation behind the works.
An essay collection that reads popular culture and power relations through episodes from eighteenth-century France.
Small anecdotes reveal the deeper structure of society.
A landmark edition collecting Charles Olson’s long poem and securing its place in American poetry.
A definitive edition that invites a fresh reading of the poem as a whole.
A novel rendered in fragments, portraying people adrift in Berlin at the end of the Weimar Republic.
The city’s glitter and collapse share the same streets.