Écho à son chef-d'oeuvre «London Orbital» (Babel n° 1411), «London Overground» incarne la dérive d'Iain Sinclair sur la Ginger Line, un réseau invisible de voies aériennes surplombant Londres, capitale du capital. ...
Chef-d'oeuvre salué par la presse, London Orbital propose une ballade discursive dans le Londres contemporain qui revisite tous les mythes anglais et la construction d'un inconscient collectif après le capitalisme galopant. ...
« Je sentais que Londres, ma ville depuis plus de cinquante ans, était aspirée dans un vortex de vide. » C'est ainsi que Iain Sinclair, figure monumentale de la scène littéraire anglaise, résume la fin de sa trilogie londonienne, «Quitter Londres». Après deux livres salués par la critique internatio...
Avec une oeuvre d'une vingtaine de romans, livres de poésies et ballades urbaines (dont traduit en français La chambre de Rodinsky), plusieurs fi lms documentaires, des grafic novels, un CD audio avec Bruce Gilbert (ancien bassiste du groupe Wire), Iain Sinclair a inventé une véritable écriture de l...
Walking the streets of London, the author traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, he creates a fluid snapshot of the city. ...
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Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair. WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document t...
In Ghost Milk Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012 Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. This is a ro...
London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city. Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the...
Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs. Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his...
Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs 'As detailed and as complex as a historical map, taking the reader hither and thither with no care as to which might be the most direct route'Observer Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair'...
'A book about London; in other words, a book about everything' Peter Ackroyd, The Times Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding ...
In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. It is a jou...
Echoing his journey in London Orbital over a decade ago, Iain Sinclair narrates his second circular walk around the capital. Shortly after rush-hour and accompanied by a rambling companion, Sinclair begins walking along London's Overground network, or, 'Ginger Line'. With characteristic playfulness,...
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Salué par ses pairs (Will Self, JG Ballard) comme "le plus grand roman du XXe siècle", "London Orbital" est un chef-d'oeuvre littéraire anglais, une ballade discursive dans le Londres contemporain qui revisite tous les mythes anglais et la construction d'un inconscient collectif après le capitalisme...
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Vers la fin des années 1960, un homme, David Rodinsky, disparaît : la pièce qu'il occupait au-dessus de la petite synagogue de Princelet Street, dans le quartier de Whitechapel à Londres, restera intacte pendant plus de dix ans. L'univers de Rodinsky était celui des Juifs d'Europe de l'Est, un monde...