A Week at the Airport by Alain De Botton; Richard Baker

Author:Alain De Botton; Richard Baker
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Urban, Sociology, Airports, Social Science, Social aspects, Travel, Commercial, Essays & Travelogues, General, England, London, Aviation, Transportation
ISBN: 9780307739674
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2010-09-21T20:22:06+00:00

Every skilful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses – and in so doing prompts us to find and savour these in the world around us. Works of literature could be seen, in this context, as immensely subtle instruments by means of which travellers setting out from Heathrow might be urged to pay more careful attention to such things as the conformity and corruption of Cologne society (Heinrich Böll), the quiet eroticism of provincial Italy (Italo Svevo) or the melancholy of Tokyo’s subways (Kenzaburō Ōe).

3 It was only after several days of frequenting the shops that I started to understand what those who objected to the dominance of consumerism at the airport might have been complaining about. The issue seemed to centre on an incongruity between shopping and flying, connected in some sense to the desire to maintain dignity in the face of death.

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