A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton

Author:Alain de Botton [Botton, Alain de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Non Fiction, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Science, Sociology, Writing
ISBN: 9781846683596
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Milan Kundera was being suggested as a guide to Prague, and Raymond Carver depended upon to reveal the hidden character of the small towns between Los Angeles and Santa Fe. Oscar Wilde once remarked that there had been less fog in London before James Whistler started to paint, and one wondered if the silence and sadness of isolated towns in the American West had not been similarly less apparent before Carver began to write.

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).

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