a confidential report
Edición de la obra Hackney, that rose-red empire
| Autor | Iain Sinclair |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Hamish Hamilton |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009 |
| Lugar | London |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 581 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780241142165 |
| ISBN-10 | 0241142164 |
| OCLC | 276227163 |
| LCCN | 2009415584 |
| Número de Cutter | S616h |
Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty. Now, the Olympics, a final attempt to clamp down on a renegade spirit, seeks to complete the process: erasure disguised as 'progress'.In this 'documentary fiction', Sinclair meets a cast of the dispossessed, including writers, photographers, bomb-makers and market traders. Legends of tunnels, Hollow Earth theories and the notorious Mole Man are unearthed. He uncovers traces of those who passed through Hackney: Lenin and Stalin, novelists Joseph Conrad and Samuel Richardson, film-makers Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard, Tony Blair beginning his political career, even a Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla on the run. And he tells his own story: of forty years in one house in Hackney, of marriage, children, strange encounters, deaths.