Top 10 buildings in fiction
Attributo da The Guardian
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Rather as everybody supposedly thinks they have a book in them, I wonder if every novelist thinks their mind holds unbuilt architecture. I know I do. Not the technical stuff, obviously. The mostra altro trigonometry and structural engineering. I mean the exciting freehand sketching bit at the start. The dreaming into existence of a building that didn’t exist before.
Of course, conjuring fictional structures on the page is about a lot more than simply satisfying unrealised ambitions: buildings have done an awful lot of work in many a fiction, shaping and expressing characters’ lives, concretising themes, rooting narratives in time and place.
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Here are some of my favourites.
David Annand – LT author page mostra meno
Of course, conjuring fictional structures on the page is about a lot more than simply satisfying unrealised ambitions: buildings have done an awful lot of work in many a fiction, shaping and expressing characters’ lives, concretising themes, rooting narratives in time and place.
[...]
Here are some of my favourites.
David Annand – LT author page mostra meno
Opera | Etichetta d'ordinamento |
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Casa Howard (1910) di E. M. Forster | 1 |
Il condominio (1975) di J. G. Ballard | 2 |
La fonte meravigliosa (1943) di Ayn Rand The Cortlandt housing project | 3 |
Una casa per Mr. Biswas (1961) di V. S. Naipaul Mr Biswas's house | 4 |
Orgoglio e pregiudizio (1813) di Jane Austen Pemberley | 5 |
Il castello (1925) di Franz Kafka | 6 |
1984 (1949) di George Orwell The Ministry of Love | 7 |
La vita istruzioni per l'uso (1978) di Georges Perec 11 rue Simon-Crubellier | 8 |
The Library of Babel [short story] (1941) di Jorge Luis Borges | 9 |
La guglia (1964) di William Golding The Cathedral | 10 |
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