City of the Beast: The London of Aleister ...

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"Aleister Crowley, "The Great Beast", infamous author and occultist, had a love-hate relationship with London, but it was where he spent much of his adult life, and it was the capital of the culture that created him. City of the beast is not a walking guide, although many routes could be pieced together from its pages. It is a biography by sites, revealing a man, an era, and a city. Fusing life-writing with psychogeography, steeped in London's social history from Victoria to the Blitz, it draws extensively on unpublished material and offers an exceptionally intimate picture of the Beast. Through 93 locations, we follow Crowley searching for prostitutes in Hyde Park and Pimlico, drinking absinthe and eating Chinese food in Soho, and finding himself down on his luck in Paddington Green - but never quite losing sight of the illumination that drove him: "the abiding rapture," he wrote in his diary, "which makes a 'bus in the street sound like an angel choir!" --

Über den Autor

Phil Baker is a writer based in London. His books include The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley, and Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist, of which Alan Moore has said "Phil Baker has established himself as among the very best contemporary biographers... What [he] has accomplished here is little short of marvelous."

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Bildende Kunst
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781913689322
ISBN-10:	1913689328
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Baker, Phil
Solist:	Smith, Timothy
Hersteller:	MIT Press
Maße:	204 x 139 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Phil Baker
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.08.2022
Gewicht:	0,362 kg

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