Una Settimana all'aeroporto - 9788860887641

Una Settimana all'aeroporto: Nell'estate 2009, De Botton riceve una proposta interessante: diventare il primo "scrittore residente" di uno degli aeroporti più importanti del mondo, quello di Heathrow. Ovvero viverci per una settimana, raccogliere impressioni e rielaborarle in un libro da una scrivania piazzata in mezzo all'atrio delle partenze. Autorizzato a curiosare dappertutto, per sette lunghi giorni De Botton gironzola tra terminal, piste di atterraggio e cucine. Ne ricaverà sorprendenti riflessioni sui meandri della psiche umana e sul viaggio come possibilità di "apportare cambiamenti duraturi alle nostre esistenze".
In the summer of 2009 Alain de Botton receives a proposal that can't say no: become the first "resident writer" from one of the world's major airports. The Chief Executive of BAA, the company that manages the airport Heathrow London, wants you to move for a week, gathering impressions and testimonies and rework it in a book. All from a desk placed between the Hall of departures, between the area D and area E. Allowed to pry more inaccessible corners and write everything, absolutely everything, what he sees, for seven long days De Botton Swan between terminals, runways and kitchens, chatting with anyone, by security guards at the airport priest , from white-collar to Dudley the shoe shine. Finished almost by accident at a crossroads of stories and emotions-lovers who split up, reception committees for relatives still unknown, desolate businessmen, immigrants rejected by the Customs authorities, Ghanaian students in search of a better future--the writer turns his pads in stories and reflections on the intricacies of the human psyche, on the fascinating contradictions of the modern world and the trip as a chance to "make lasting changes in our lives."