書籍情報
- 出版社
- Picador
- 発売日
- 2022-07-12
- ページ数
- 432ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 2.74 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781250849144
- ISBN-10
- 1250849144
- 価格
- 3506 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
Winner of the 2020 Medici Prize for Foreign Novel From the award-winning author of the Man Booker Prize finalist Like a Fading Shadow , Antonio Muñoz Molina presents a flâneur-novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan, and his mind. De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd , Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A skilled collagist himself, Muñoz Molina here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one’s arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight—struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data—into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis. A denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), To Walk Alone in the Crowd is also a celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.
Antonio Muñoz Molina is the author of more than a dozen novels, including In the Night of Time , Sepharad , and Like a Fading Shadow. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including Spain’s National Narrative Prize, the Planeta Prize, the Medici Prize for Foreign Novel, and the Príncipe de Asturias Prize. He has been a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1995. He lives in Madrid and New York City.
レビュー
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A pumped up ego weasels through a flat world, consisting of ads and news snippets and useless fantasies plus some remembered quotes from yore: as soulless as the commercial art scene... At least I've learned to stay away from award-winning books!
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A book, that makes you think and let’s you know how doing nothing sometimes can be beautiful. How observation can be fun!
関連する文学賞
- メディシス賞 第50回（2020年 第2回開催） ・Winner