Borges' travel, Hemingway's garage
secret histories
1st ed.
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Word Count
48,750 words, Guess
Page Count
195 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3290059M
- ISBN-101573661147
- OCLC Control Number54529686
- OCLC Control Numberborgestravelhemi0000axel
- Library of Congress Control Number2004004388
and 2 more
- LibraryThing297178
- Goodreads206261
Classifications
- DDC814/.6
- LCCPN6231.A77 A93 2004
Description
"If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel Hemingway's Garage. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas, photographing products and businesses that hear the great names of Western civilization and then has recounted the little-known ruins of fate by which our immortals ended in these mundane straits. Learn the untold history of Rembrandt's Toothpaste, Van Gogh's Potatoes, Lautrec Handbags, and Kipling's Rucksacks. Dine on Fellini's Pollo La Strada in Rome. Hear the great Czech fabulist kibitzing with his cooks at Kafka's Cafe, and find our about Christ's "hidden years" at the Taverne Chez Jesus. Axelrod's guide reconnects contemporary reality with a heritage it has rendered dreamlike, making tangible the hallucinatory grandeur still projected from our past. For those who the lament our culture's prostitution to capital, Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage offers definitive proof that art lives on."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Genres
- Humor.
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