Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage: Secret Histories

by Mark Axelrod

A tongue-in-cheek guide to the connections between contemporary reality and the past

If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage . In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas photographing products and businesses that bear the great names of Western civilization and then has recounted the little-known turns of fate by which our immortals ended up in these mundane straits. For those who lament our culture's prostitution to capital, Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage offers definitive proof that art lives on.

Learn the untold history of Rembrandt's Toothpaste, Van Gogh's Potatoes, Lautrec Handbags, and Kipling's Rucksacks. Dine on Fellini's Pollo La Strada in Brussels. Hear the great Czech fabulist kibitzing with his cooks at Kafka's Cafe, and find out about Christ's "hidden years" at the Taverne Chez Jesus.

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

For almost two decades, Mark Axelrod has been the Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing for which he has received 4 National Endowment Arts Grants. He is a two-time recipient of a United Kingdom Leverhulme Fellowship for Creative Writing (University of East Anglia, Edinburgh University), a three-time recipient of the Alliance Française National Writing Award, has written over 20 works of fiction including Capital Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 2000), Cloud Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 1998), Cardboard Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 1996) and Bombay California;or Hollywood, Somewhere West of Vine (Pacific Writers Press, 1994) and Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage (fc2, 2005) which was published in fall, ’09 in Spanish by Thule Ediciones, Barcelona as Viajes Borges, Talleres Hemingway.

Reviews

[Nikos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Εξυπνο και χιουμοριστικο!!!!!!!!

[Melanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cute premise but it kind of dragged on.

[Yeah · Rating 2 out of 5]

his imagination is insipid and uninspiring. but the premise is quite creative. 5 stars for premise, 3 for execution.