‘Mapping It Out’: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tom McCarthy
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Relationship Between Literature and Maps
The Divine Comedy is kind of a mapping exercise. Lewis Carroll has this huge looming presence in the middle, like Ulysses. I grew up in Greenwich, which is the center of the world. The meridian could be anywhere. And it's literally a fiction. There is a line, an inscription, a piece of writing in the earth. So I mean, this kind of relation between literature and maps.
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