From the moment when Socrates said "I am Athenian" and did not leave the city even at the cost of his life, until Georg Simmel's brilliant essay "Metropolis and mental life", and even millennia before Socrates and until today in t ...
From the moment when Socrates said "I am Athenian" and did not leave the city even at the cost of his life, until Georg Simmel's brilliant essay "Metropolis and mental life", and even millennia before Socrates and until today in the third millennium after Christ, the city It was the manifestation of man's wishes and hopes, a man who wanted to make the world the way he liked it. But could the city without literature be reproduced in history and find its own representations? If Troy found an image in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as if it was a narrative of glory and destruction and the end of a legend, Virgil in the Aeneid writes the rebirth of the legendary Troy in the founding of Rome by Aeneas and his son Illius. It is as if the spirit of Troy, accompanied by Apollo, travels from east to west, from Anatolia to the Mediterranean. This is one of the adventures of literature and the city that connects the millennia and this story has a lot of depth and expansion and covers nearly five thousand years of civilization. The book "The City in Literature" is a collection of essays with historical, analytical, and philosophical continuity, which slowly passed through the twists and turns of literature and urbanism, their cohabitations and confrontations, and passed from Uruk and Erido to Petersburg and New York, Paris and London, Berlin and Dublin and... explains in their relationship with literature. Kevin R. McNamara" and other authors of this book, emphasizing heavenly cities, rational utopias, modern metropolises, avant-garde cities, post-modern cities, wandering cities, night cities, etc., have given us one of the most detailed series of continuous writings about literature and the city, which Reading them is a pleasure, like wandering in the cities of literature of all ages.
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