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Berlin - The Passenger (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 240
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Berlin - The Passenger (Paperback)
Series: The Passenger
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List price R621
Loot Price R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
You Save R97 (16%)
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The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and
reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers
and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and
investigative journalism; original photography and illustrations;
charts, and unusual facts and observations, each volume offers a
unique insight into a different culture, and how history has shaped
the place into what it is today. Brimming with intricate research
and enduring wonder, The Passenger is a love-letter to global
travel. IN THIS VOLUME, Peter Schneider, Cees Nooteboom, Vincenzo
Latronico among other German writers tell of a youthful city that
doesn't cling to its "poor but sexy" past. "Berlin is too big for
Berlin" is the curious title of a book by the flaneur Hanns
Zischler, who joked about the low population density of a city so
spread-out and polycentric-one of the reasons why it still inspires
feelings of freedom and space. But the phrase also carries a
symbolic, broader meaning: how can a single city encompass and
sustain such a weighty mythology as that of contemporary Berlin,
"the capital of cool"? In order to find out, it is necessary to go
back to the origins of today's Berlin, when time seemed to have
stopped. The scars of a century of war were still visible
everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts,
not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a
hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the past and
into the future. The city's youth seemed to have appropriated-and
turned into a positive-the famous phrase pronounced by Karl
Scheffler at the beginning of the 20th century: "Berlin is a place
doomed to always become, never be."
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