16 Ergebnisse.

The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.

Marius Kociejowski's portrait of this baffling city is unique.

Contemporary resonance: in an era of growing anti-Amazon sentiment and the widespread effects of COVID-19 on bookshop employees, Factotum takes up the unsung anthem of the bookseller. While there are quite a few memoirs of the book trade, Kociejowski's is told not from the perspective of those who run the trade but from its ticklish underbelly-the factotum 'as watcher, spook, chronicler of the mundane.' This book originated as an essay in Th...

The Collected Poems of Marius Kociejowski

Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool

This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists, and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles or émigrés displaced from their cultural and geographical origins. The subjects include poet John Rety from Hungary, painter Fawzi Karim from Iraq, novelist Moris Farhi from Turkey, poet Martina Evans from Ireland, artist Ana Maria Pacheco from Brazil, actor Andrzej Borkowski from Poland, novelist B...

Includes two monologues.

Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool

Presents a collection of poems for which music is the motif. This book features poems that explore tenderness and the origins of violence.

Pigeon Wars offers an outcast's tour of the post 9-11 clashes and challenges and changes refashioning the Middle East.

Essays and anecdotes from travel-writer, poet, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski, including pieces on encounters with Bruce Chatwin and Javier Marias.

Keine Beschreibung.

Krakauer meets Vollmann and Leigh-Fermor in these mesmerizing travel essays, all rendered in an exquisite style all Kociejowski's own.

The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool presents the unexpected face of Syria. Based on five journeys, undertaken over as many years, Kociejowski's book is entirely concerned with the slow journey towards friendship

Keine Beschreibung.

This exciting new series will bring together both classic texts and the writing of the leading Travel writers working today, which will inform and inspire the inquisitive traveller.