The City and the World
Gregor Hens author Jen Calleja translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publishing:22nd May '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 22nd May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world – from Berlin to Las Vegas to Shenzen, from Cologne to Santiago de Chile to Paris – reading, walking and swimming, asking how we perceive the city and how it may perceive us. Threading memoir and personal reflections with travelogue, philosophy, photography and references from a wide variety of writers and thinkers, The City and the World is a captivating, illuminating and expansive journey into the heart of the modern city.
‘Gregor Hens combines memories and reflections, reportage and theory to create an impressive book about the phenomenon of the city…. The appeal of the book, however, lies not in the diversity of the topics addressed, but in the seemingly effortless and almost somnambulistic way in which Hens combines his own memories and reflections, reportage and theory.’
— FAZ
‘This book is a blessing…. In a mixture of essay, autobiographical recollection and dream travelogue, the Cologne-born author takes us into all these exciting storehouses of stories and history in his richly illustrated book.’
— RND
‘This is the driving principle of his book: by virtue of his imagination, his sensibility and his readings, the author succeeds in spinning a web whose individual threads touch and extend into the distance.’
— Deutschlandradio Kultur
ISBN: 9781804271698
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
330 pages