Iain Sinclair Bücher

Iain Sinclair erkundet in diesem literarischen Spaziergang die Verbindung zwischen dem heutigen London und William Blakes Visionen. Er analysiert Blakes Poetik und deren Beziehung zu konkreten Orten, während er Einflüsse von Emanuel Swedenborg aufdeckt und Parallelen zu anderen Flaneuren zieht. Sinclairs Werk ist eine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit Londons Geheimnissen.

Im Jahr 1969 öffneten die Behörden das Dachgeschoss einer Synagoge im Londoner East End. Dabei stießen sie auf die Kammer des Synagogendieners David Rodinsky, der spurlos verschwunden war. Zwanzig Jahre blieb der Raum unberührt - und doch wurde er so hinterlassen, als beabsichtigte der Bewohner, jeden Augenblick zurückzukommen. Fasziniert von seinen rätselhaften Schriften und Habseligkeiten macht sich Rachel Lichtenstein auf die Suche nach dem alten Juden und seiner Geschichte. Ihre Spurensuche führt sie nach Israel und Polen und auch in das Dickicht ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit.

Fast alle seiner zahlreichen Bücher hat Iain Sinclair erwandert und dem Boden abgerungen. Dabei hat er zahlreiche Beobachtungen insbesondere von Stadtlandschaften gemacht und deren Veränderung dokumentiert. Zentrum seiner in England längst Klassiker gewordenen psychogeografischen Bücher ist London. Ein Buch aber bildet die Ausnahme: In Der Rand des Orizonts verlässt er die Stadt und macht sich gemeinsam mit seiner Frau auf, eine tief bewegende Wanderung zu unternehmen. Er durchmisst Flucht und Leid des Dichters John Clare, der sich mehr als 150 Jahre vor den beiden auf derselben Strecke von seiner Schwermut und der Sehnsucht nach seiner drei Jahre zuvor verstorbenen Ehefrau zu heilen versuchte, aus der Nervenheilanstalt ausbrach und in einem Gewaltmarsch in sein Heimatdorf zurückwanderte. Die physische Anstrengung Sinclairs, das Erleben der über die Zeiten veränderten Landschaft, die Lektüre Clares in Gedanken machen diese autobiografisch-biografische Recherche zu einem tief bewegenden Erlebnis.

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, and madness in post-WWII London. Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, his boss and landlady, Coffin Ada, sends him to retrieve some rare books, one of which, Dennis discovers, should not exist. A London Walk by Rev. Thomas Hampole is a fictitious book that appears in a real novel by another author. Yet A London Walk is physically there in his hands, nonetheless. Coffin Ada tells Dennis the book comes from the other London, the Great When, a version of the city that is beyond time. In the Great When, epochs blend and realities and unrealities blur, while concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous and terrible beings. But, Coffin Ada tells Dennis, if he does not return the book to this other London, he will be killed. So begins Dennis' adventure in Long London. Delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers, Dennis finds himself at the center of an explosive series of events that may endanger both Londons. Mystical, hilarious, and magnificently imagined, The Great When is an unforgettable introduction to the consciousness-altering world of Long London.

Roland Camberton's second novel, first published in 1951, is a coming of age portrayal of 'down Hackney', home of David Hirsch, who steadily leaves behind his Jewish upbringing in adolescence to explore the wider world of London. Typically there is a wide array of humorous characters in his portrayal of Hackney and the more cosmopolitan world Hirsch is drawn towards.

The final chapter in Sinclair's life-long odyssey through the streets of the Big Smoke

A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empireA New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021‘Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.’ Barry MilesFrom the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory , a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by – and in reaction to – an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab. The historic thirst for gold and the establishment of sprawling coffee plantations leave terrible wounds on virgin territory.In Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.‘ The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.’ TLS

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 journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before

Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty. Now, the Olympics, a final attempt to clamp down on a renegade spirit, seeks to complete the process: erasure disguised as �progress�. In this �documentary fiction�, Sinclair meets a cast of the dispossessed, including writers, photographers, bomb-makers and market traders. Legends of tunnels, Hollow Earth theories and the notorious Mole Man are unearthed. He uncovers traces of those who passed through Hackney: Lenin and Stalin, novelists Joseph Conrad and Samuel Richardson, film-makers Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard, Tony Blair beginning his political career, even a Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla on the run. And he tells his own story: of forty years in one house in Hackney, of marriage, children, strange encounters, deaths.

The Thames may still flow through the heart of London, but life along its shores has dramatically changed. DOWNRIVER is a savage, satirical quest to understand how people's lives, a government's policies, and a legendary urban waterland conspire together in a boggling display of self-destruction.