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The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting

Af: Robert Irwin Engelsk Hardback

The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting

Af: Robert Irwin Engelsk Hardback
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A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the world of stamps and collecting by maverick historian and writer Robert Irwin

Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire - or even a kind of madness? In this mosaic of fiction, philosophy, sociology, biography and autobiography, virtuoso thinker Robert Irwin takes us on a wayward journey through the art of collecting, and his own intellectual passions.

Drawing on the works of writers including Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, Iris Murdoch and Georges Perec, as well as a host of lesser-known geniuses, flaneurs, obsessives and eccentrics, Irwin explores everything from mysticism to nostalgia, classical antiquity to surrealism, dreams to death. We join Thomas De Quincey on a night mail coach, encounter the man who set out to acquire every stamp ever issued and enter the badlands of fakes and forgeries, all in the company of a uniquely brilliant mind.

This is a book of wonders; of labyrinthine digressions, good humour and a delight in small things. It is a meditation on the stuff of life.

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A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the world of stamps and collecting by maverick historian and writer Robert Irwin

Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire - or even a kind of madness? In this mosaic of fiction, philosophy, sociology, biography and autobiography, virtuoso thinker Robert Irwin takes us on a wayward journey through the art of collecting, and his own intellectual passions.

Drawing on the works of writers including Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, Iris Murdoch and Georges Perec, as well as a host of lesser-known geniuses, flaneurs, obsessives and eccentrics, Irwin explores everything from mysticism to nostalgia, classical antiquity to surrealism, dreams to death. We join Thomas De Quincey on a night mail coach, encounter the man who set out to acquire every stamp ever issued and enter the badlands of fakes and forgeries, all in the company of a uniquely brilliant mind.

This is a book of wonders; of labyrinthine digressions, good humour and a delight in small things. It is a meditation on the stuff of life.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9781805337744
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1805337742
Kategori: Erindringer
Udg. Dato: 10 apr 2025
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 138mm
Højde: 205mm
Forlag: Pushkin Press
Oplagsdato: 10 apr 2025
Forfatter(e): Robert Irwin
Forfatter(e) Robert Irwin


Kategori Erindringer


ISBN-13 9781805337744


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 240


Udgave


Længde 24mm


Bredde 138mm


Højde 205mm


Udg. Dato 10 apr 2025


Oplagsdato 10 apr 2025


Forlag Pushkin Press

Kategori sammenhænge