Name: The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting (en Inglés)
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Author: Robert Irwin

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The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Pushkin Press

Autor

Robert Irwin

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.81x12.95 cm

ISBN13

9781805337768

The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting (en Inglés)

Robert Irwin (Autor) · Pushkin Press · Tapa Blanda

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A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.

“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obscure facts, arcane anecdotes and playful romps.” — Literary Review

Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire—or even a kind of madness?

Robert Irwin—novelist, historian, translator, collector—was a true original; a virtuoso thinker who combined encyclopaedic knowledge with boundless curiosity. In this ‘mosaic of fiction, philosophy, sociology, biography and autobiography’ he takes us on a wayward journey through the art of collecting, and his own intellectual passions.

Drawing on a treasure-trove of literary references from writers including Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, Iris Murdoch and Georges Perec, as well as a host of lesser-known geniuses, flaneurs, obsessives and eccentrics, Irwin explores everything from mysticism to nostalgia, psychology to propaganda, classical antiquity to surrealism, dreams to death. We join Thomas De Quincey on a night mail coach, encounter the man who set out to acquire every stamp ever issued, enter the shadowlands of long-vanished kingdoms and the badlands of fakes and forgeries, all in the company of a uniquely brilliant mind.

This is a one-of-a-kind book of wonders; of labyrinthine digressions, good humour and a ‘delight in small things’. It is a satisfying and unforgettable meditation on the stuff of life.