Charlotte Van den Broeck Bold Ventures Hardback Book Multicolor

Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclairs psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyers antibiography of DH Lawrence Olivia Laing, GUARDIANA marvel a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their plans dissolve in dust NEW YORK TIMESIn thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire built in seventeenthcentury France to a theatre that collapsed midperformance in 1920s Washington, DC., and an eerily sinking swimming pool in her hometown of Turnhout. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Charles Darwin to art history, stories from her own life and popular culture, patterns gradually come into focus, as Van den Broeck asks what is that strange lifeordeath connection between a creation and its creator?Threaded through each story, and in prose of great essayistic subtlety, Van den Broeck meditates on the question of suicide what Albert Camus called the one truly serious philosophical problem in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking new ground in literary nonfiction, as well as providing solace and consolation and a note of caution to anyone who has ever risked their hand at a creative act. What a sensible, intelligent and beautiful book... Charlotte Van den Broeck Bold Ventures Hardback Book