Remains of London’s history and invest them with a shamanistic significance. Humours that it can neither decay nor die' ( The House of Doctor Dee, 1993).Īckroyd’s approach is essentially visionary, unlike that of Iain Sinclair, whose explorations seek out the His belief in a perpetual London is founded not solely on physical grounds such asĪrchitecture and geography, but also on a metaphysical conviction about the enduring character of the city.Īs John Dee puts it: 'All is now as it was then, and will always be, for the city is so compacted of virtues and Throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century, bringing his ideas together in London: The Biography Far from being a work of generic science fiction however, itĮmbodies a warning based on one of Ackroyd’s principal preoccupations, the perpetual survival of London.Īs novelist and commentator, Peter Ackroyd has explored this aspect of London’s character increasingly The Plato Papers is set in the distant future. Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & II John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre
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