Roma - - Bernard Saint - Paperback Bog - Smokestack Books - 2016 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Description

‘Time’, wrote the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, ‘is a river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.’ In Roma , Bernard Saint follows the shade of Marcus Aurelius through the elastic time zones of the Eternal City. There they encounter Gregory Corso, Chet Baker, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg; they walk down the Catwalk, watch Reality TV and guide a rock-star into rehab. Like Cavafy’s Alexandria, Grass’s Danzig, Borges’ Buenos Aires – and Fellini’s Roma – this is a book about a city where time never walks in a straight narrative line. It is a book about imagination and history, accidents and architecture, faces and frescoes; a river where past, present, and future meet.