ISBN: 9781639442225 - a wanderer between the worlds (1 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: New. Javed Amir's memoir of literary travel draws on roughly fifty years of journeys across five continents. It opens with an account of Lahore, the city he says defines him. From there the essays visit the places where writers and artists lived and worked, and they look at how each figure is tied to their city and landscape. Pablo Neruda, Franz Kafka, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot are discussed at length. James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, H. L. Mencken, Philip Roth, Camus, James Baldwin, V. S. Naipaul and Orhan Pamuk appear in their own cities, along with Van Gogh, Renoir and Chopin. Painters and photographers are covered alongside the writers.…