Flâneurs and the Found Poetry of the City in “To Walk Alone in the Crowd” – Chicago Review of Books

Flâneurs and the Found Poetry of the City in “To Walk Alone in the Crowd” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] ​​The narrator of Antonio Muñoz Molina’s To Walk Alone in the Crowd is a man with a 20th-century sensibility exiled in the excesses of the 21st. He’s recovering from a terrifying depressive episode, in a state alternating between “the twin poles” of nostalgia and anxiety. And because he is, above all, a passionate reader, … Read more