Mary Gasalee, David Mummery, Josef Kiss... Tous les trois sont fous. C'est en tout cas ce que veut faire croire la bonne société londonienne qui ne cessera de les abrutir de médicaments ou de les enfermer sous prétexte qu'ils entendent des voix. Et s'ils n'étaient pas si fous que ça ? Et si les secrets, l'esprit de Londres leur étaient réellement dévoilés grâce à ce pouvoir incompréhensible qui leur permet de lire les pensées des gens qu'ils croisent ? De 1940 à la fin des années quatre-vingt, de l'Angleterre du Blitz à celle de Margaret Thatcher, c'est leur saga qui nous est contée, indissociable de celle de cette ville bâtie sur des mythes : Londres. Entre rêve et réalité, histoire et fiction, Michael Moorcock livre avec Mother London une transfiction remarquable, hommage à Londres et au pouvoir de la littérature, qui puise sa source, entre autres, chez Virginia Woolf et James Joyce. Probablement son chef-d'œuvre.
Londýnske romány Séria
Táto séria vás vtiahne do srdca Londýna, mesta plného tajomstiev a histórie, kde sa hranice medzi realitou a ilúziou stierajú. Sledujte osudy postáv, ktoré sa potýkajú s nepochopiteľnými schopnosťami a prenikajú do skrytých myšlienok ostatných. Príbehy sa odvíjajú naprieč desaťročiami, od vojnových útrap až po modernú éru, a odhaľujú fascinujúce prepojenie medzi ľudskými osudmi a duchom samotného mesta. Je to rozprávanie o sile mysle, mýtoch a nezlomnej sile literatúry.



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A wonderfully rich and dazzling novel celebrating the people and places of post-war London. The main characters - all considered to be mentally disturbed by the medical profession - are able to hear the babbling voices from the heart of the city in their heads. A loving rhapsody dedicated to London itself in much the same way Ulysses was or Dublin. 'A novel that is intended to be a celebration of my native city. It deals in London life since 1940 to around 1986. While some of the material suggests a possible fantastic element, there is no overt fantasy in the book. I think it's probably my own favourite. And it has a happy ending!' Michael Moorcock 'His is the grand, messy flux itself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism. For Moorcock's Londoners, nothing could be more magical than the real fabric of the city they love and the stories with which it echoes' Angela Carter, GUARDIAN
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