Podcast: Ahdaf Soueif Reads Her Essay from Artangel’s A London Address Project
Ahdaf Soueif is the latest writer to take up residence in A Room for London as part of Artangel‘s year-long project.
A Room for London is a one bedroom hotel installation, modelled on the boat from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that has been moored on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Writers are invited to spend four days on the boat and to write an essay on one or more of the these themes: London, rivers and/or Conrad.
In this Guardian podcast Soueif is interviewed as she leaves the boat after her solitary stay. She also reads from the essay which touches on all three of the themes and ultimately speaks about the concept of belonging:
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Behind my left shoulder the giant wheel of the London Eye, behind my right the Wedgewood pastel of St Paul’s – turn left, turn right, and in the space between the turns the panorama of London passes before me: The Palace of Westminster and Big Ben with the tower of the Abbey rising behind them, Whitehall, Charing Cross Station, the building I’ve always thought of as ‘the Daily Mail’, the Savoy, Somerset House, and on and on to St Paul’s. Icon after icon, like toys laid out in the window of a souvenir shop.
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