Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage: Secret Histories
A tongue-in-cheek guide to the connections between contemporary reality and the past If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas photographing products and businesses that bear the great names of Western civilization and then has recounted the little-known turns of fate by which our immortals ended up in these mundane straits. For those who lament our culture's prostitution to capital, Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage offers definitive proof that art lives on. Learn the untold history of Rembrandt's Toothpaste, Van Gogh's Potatoes, Lautrec Handbags, and Kipling's Rucksacks. Dine on Fellini's Pollo La Strada in Brussels. Hear the great Czech fabulist kibitzing with his cooks at Kafka's Cafe, and find out about Christ's "hidden years" at the Taverne Chez Jesus.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1573661147
ISBN13:9781573661140
Release Date:April 2004
Publisher:F2c
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I'll have to ask my father (Borges or Borges Travel in Tustin) tomorrow why this book says he's buried in Geneva, Switzerland. Oddly he said he's never heard of this book before when I asked him before I picked it up. I take it this is a collection of very short fictitious stories...
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