{"product_id":"9781784743987-bold-ventures","title":"Bold Ventures","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Bold Ventures\u003c\/i\u003e resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or \u003ci\u003eOut of Sheer Rage\u003c\/i\u003e, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their plans dissolve in dust' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 seventeenth-century France to a theatre that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC., and an eerily sinking swimming pool in her hometown of Turnhout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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 life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThreaded 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 non-fiction, as well as providing solace and consolation - and a note of caution - to anyone who has ever risked their hand at a creative act.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What a sensible, intelligent and beautiful book' Stefan Hertmans, author of \u003ci\u003eWar and Turpentine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40057942278241,"sku":"9781784743987","price":15.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32313535.jpg?v=1737187032","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784743987-bold-ventures","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}