“Swedenborg’s visions were not events imposed upon him by some outside agency. They were the agency that he had always, from the beginning, solicited with his eyes wide open.”—Iain Sinclair
“This is a book about a small house. It is also a book about place, memory and the modes of our thinking.”
Constructed of wood in 1747 and situated at the end of his garden in Stockholm, Swedenborg’s lusthus remains one of the most enigmatic buildings of the eighteenth century. It was in this small house that Swedenborg claimed to have dialogued with spirits from the next world, and it was here that he wrote the majority of his late visionary works.
Edited and gathered by Stephen McNeilly and bringing together commissioned texts by award winning writers Iain Sinclair, Chloe Aridjis, Ken Worpole and Deborah Levy plus artworks and photographs by Bridget Smith, Anonymous Bosch, Daniel Birnbaum, Ben Wickey and Arne Biornstad, this elegant study offers a unique insight into the relationship between place and writing and the connection between the visionary and the everyday.
Includes over 100 colour images, a poster insert plus 3 x photographic fold-out pages.
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