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03764aam a2200517 i 4500 001 E9FD88C8214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 220126s2022 nyuab b 000 0ceng 010 $a 2022003275 020 $a 1635423449 020 $a 9781635423440 035 $a (OCoLC)1289232783 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NYP $d OCO $d UOK $d YDX $d VP@ $d FHP $d AUM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a DD857.A2 $b B437 2022 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20220415 100 1 $a Bell, Kirsty, $e author. 245 14 $a The undercurrents : $b a story of Berlin / $c Kirsty Bell. 264 1 $a New York : $b Other Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 385 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Prelude -- I. Ditch -- II. Witness -- III. Plot -- IV. Watercourse -- V. Swamp -- VI. Adrift -- VII. Railway time -- VIII. Maiden -- IX. Triangulation -- X. Signs -- XI. Collision course -- XII. Transport -- XIII. Free-fall -- XIV. An interlude -- XV. Standstill -- XVI. Dead end -- XVII. Exception -- XVIII. Wide field -- XIX. Turn -- XX. Displacement -- XXI. Constellation -- Coda. 520 $a "Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city's theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell-a British-American art critic, adrift in her mid-forties-becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house's various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxembourg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city's familiar narratives"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Bell, Kirsty. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x Social life and customs. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x History. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x Buildings, structures, etc. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x In literature. 651 6 $a Berlin (Allemagne) $x Histoire. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Germany. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Buildings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00840962 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 651 7 $a Germany $z Berlin. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204829 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bell, Kirsty. $t Undercurrents $d New York : Other Press, [2022] $z 9781635423457 $w (DLC) 2022003276 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100402.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E9FD88C8214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search