To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Munoz Molina
To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Munoz Molina
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To Walk Alone in the Crowd
A Novel

Author: Antonio Muñoz Molina, Guillermo Bleichmar

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Unabridged: 15 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/13/2021


Synopsis

De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering.

A skilled collagist himself, Muñoz Molina here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one's arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight—struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data—into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis.

A denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), To Walk Alone in the Crowd is also a celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

To Walk Alone in the Crowd is a mosaic of a novel… As the mosaic consists of small multicoloured pieces so the crowd consists of variegated human individuals… I move through a city of voices and words. Voices that set the air in motion and pass through my inner ear to reach the brain transformed into......more

Goodreads review by Bagus

Reading this book, I got reminded by the simple yet complex fragments in Olga Tokarczuk’s most celebrated work, Flights. In her novel, Olga Tokarczuk attempts to provide a constellation of different angles and timelines which shift continuously throughout the story to guide us to a meditation on the......more

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Goodreads review by César

«Cualquier día puede ser una fiesta si tienes todo lo necesario. Se ríen en círculo mirando cada uno su móvil y al mismo tiempo unidos por la excitación que irradia de cada pantalla. Se ríen en pareja, se ríen en familia, se ríen en pandilla o en horda, se ríen a solas como dementes, haciéndose un s......more

Goodreads review by Bert

I was eager to read this latest book by Antonio Munoz Molina, a writer I fell in love with after reading his masterpiece Sepharad several years ago. Additionally, I spent considerable time searching for a copy of his Winter in Lisbon which I also enjoyed. Along with my familiarity with the author I......more