Lands of Glass
鉄道やクリスタル・パレスをめぐる連想を手がかりに、複数の人物と断片的な物語が響き合う長編。寓話的で抒情的な文体が、近代都市の空気を織り上げる。
作品情報
断片的な物語が、近代都市の光と影をつなぐ。
クリスタル・パレスや鉄道をめぐるイメージの連鎖から、都市と欲望の輪郭を浮かび上がらせるイタリア小説。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- 発売日
- 2002-08-01
- ページ数
- 240ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.4 x 2.5 x 22.7 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780241141748
- ISBN-10
- 0241141745
- 価格
- 2684 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
From one of Italy's most brilliant and most inventive writers comes the story of two visionaries of the mid-nineteenth century. Mr Rail is a small-town entrepreneur and glass-maker, and Hector Horeau is the Parisian architect who commissions him to make the glass for the Crystal Palace. They are joined by the extravagant inventor, Pekisch, and Elisabeth, a steam locomotive racing along on a railway to nowhere. Theirs is a Kafkaesque tale of angry visions, confused emotions and fantastic ambitions.
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958 where he still lives today. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed novels SILK, OCEAN SEA and CITY.
レビュー
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He is the Faulkner of our time. This book, I believe, is his first? Not his most masterful, but still stunning. And for folks who like to watch the evolution of a writer, you can see him chiseling out his craft here, then refining it in Silk.
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Fast delivery and book as described. Love it, just what I wanted at an affordable price!
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La storia é bellissima purtroppo il libro é arrivato rovinato.
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