Leaving Blockprint

Leaving BlockprintOne of the leading living European writers, Cees Nooteboom never shies away from contemporary issues. His latest collection of poems, Leaving, begins in a garden with descriptions of Mediterranean plants, but what emerges are memories of the warimages of a distant past that have never disappeared. The poems take another turn when, unexpectedly, a mysterious virus takes control of the world and turns life upside down. A collection that can be read as a

This conflict of cultures is captured by Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in The Edge of Faith

Lascaux and Golgotha

Mumbai (2008)

this volume also analyses the class structure within the prostitute community of the time

autobiography

to the world of the artist himself

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But there is more going on here than meets the eye: the letters are addressed to an unnamed ‘other’ and chart the course of an elusive affair

The text is supplemented by sumptuous illustrations by Arnold Mario Dall’O that chart the stories of the saints

this book focuses on contemporary Indian cultural institutions

from Caspar David Friedrich and Caravaggio to Bacon and Jean Rustin

among other locations