Charlotte Van den Broeck - Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy
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In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architectsarchitects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the authors hometown. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to art history, stories from her own life, and popular culture, Van den Broeck brings patterns into focus as she asks, What is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator?
Threaded through each story is the authors meditation on the question of suicidewhat Albert Camus called the one truly serious philosophical problemin relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking ground in literary nonfiction, as well as providing solace and consolation to anyone who has ever attempted a creative act.
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Praise for
Bold Ventures
[A] gorgeous and roving debutVan den Broecks exploration extends beyond the lives and works of her subjects, turning into both a philosophical meditation on creativity and a brilliant character study of misunderstood artists.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A darkly comic meditation on the nature of creativity and the narrow margins between triumph and despair. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part reflection, this unique and hugely engaging book takes a fresh look at the tragicomic condition of being human.
Carolyn Steel, author of Sitopia
This book resembles the remarkable twisted steeple of the Church of Saint Omer, one of the buildings Charlotte Van den Broeck visits in Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy. An award-winning poet, she brings an unexpected perspective, as did the green elm timbers that crooked and bowed the Calais spire into the shape of a battered witch hat. In her vivid prose, she examines dreams gone bad, immersing herself in a compelling counter-narrative in which events in her own life meld with both reveries and passing meetings with Goethes young Werther, Borromini, and Sylvia Plath. Though Van den Broecks subject here is failurebuildings disappoint, designers die by their own handher investigation into the fragility of creative hope has a genuine obsessive power.
Hugh Howard, author of Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of Americas Public and Private Spaces
[Bold Ventures] dares to seek out a depth rarely encountered nowadays, one necessary for calling yourself an artistthis writer has something very special.
Low Countries
While going on essayistic quests that take her around the globe, Van den Broeck traces stories of self-complacency, fear of failure, and destiny. Indirectly, she researches the link between building and writing. Isnt every author bold by default, after all? In Bold Ventures she lives up to her ambition.
De Morgen
Van den Broeck has a very keen eye. But she also has a great mind, making transitions between philosophical contemplations and journalistic passages seem effortless.
De Standaard
Also by Charlotte Van den Broeck
POETRY
Chameleon / Nachtroer
Copyright Charlotte Van den Broeck 2019
First published in Dutch as Waagstukken in 2019
by De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam/Antwerp.
English translation copyright David McKay 2022
First published in 2022 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage.
Vintage is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies.
Production editor: Yvonne E. Crdenas
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Other Press LLC, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. For information write to Other Press LLC, 267 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10016. Or visit our Web site: www.otherpress.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Broeck, Charlotte Van den, 1991- author. | McKay, David, translator. | Broeck, Charlotte Van den, 1991- Waagstukken.
Title: Bold ventures : thirteen tales of architectural tragedy / Charlotte Van den Broeck; translated from the Dutch by David McKay.
Other titles: Waagstukken. English
Description: New York : Other Press, 2022.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022018765 (print) | LCCN 2022018766 (ebook) | ISBN 9781635423174 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781635423181 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: ArchitectsDeath. | ArchitectureMiscellanea. | ArchitectsSuicidal behavior. | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) | FailurePsychology.
Classification: LCC NA2543.D43 B7613 2022 (print) | LCC NA2543.D43 (ebook) | DDC 720dc23/eng/20220621
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022018765
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022018766
Ebook ISBN9781635423181
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Today is a word that only suicides ought to be allowed to use, it has no meaning for other people. It merely signifies a day like all the rest.
Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina, trans. Philip Boehm
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence.
Rem Koolhaas & Bruce Mau, S,M,L,XL
But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
Anne Sexton, Wanting to Die
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As luck would have it, she landed on her back and could keep her mouth above water. Two weeks before her sixteenth birthday, Nathalie was caught by her long ponytail in the filter of the paddling pool. The incident occurred on a busy Sunday afternoon, when the adult pool was too crowded for her to swim lengths. Nathalies uncle had brought her to Turnhout from the neighboring town of Retie. While waiting for a 25-meter lane, she was playing with her uncle and young cousin in the shallow childrens pool. She was seated with her back to the edge of the pool when she felt a sharp tug on her hair. The back of her head slammed into the tiled edge. Nathalie tried to scramble to her feet but was held down by a painful yanking sensation. She reached for her ponytail by instinct, we cover the spots that hurt most with our hands but where it should have been, she felt only the back of her head against the wall of the pool.
From the time her ponytail was caught in the suction outlet to the time of her rescue Nathalie was in no immediate danger of drowning, but throughout those tense minutes she was held in an extremely uncomfortable position.
Pool supervisor Bert was the first to rush to her aid. The obvious solution was to cut off the ponytail, but Nathalie was struggling with all her might. This made the trapped ponytail pull even harder; at any moment, the skin and hair might be torn away from her scalp. Her thrashing also made it very difficult for Bert to position the scissors for the liberating snip. The girl was screaming blue murder, perhaps in severe pain or perhaps in protest.
As a pool supervisor, Bert was used to thinking on his feet. Without pausing to interpret her screams, he ruthlessly cut off the ponytail. Nathalies uncle and a few concerned bystanders grabbed her and calmed her down, wrapping the back of her head in a towel. Bert scissors in one hand, lopped-off ponytail in the other then saw what must have happened. In the exact spot where Nathalies head had been held against the edge of the pool, the circulation system had a suction outlet, protected by a cover four millimeters thick. The cover turned out not to have been screwed on securely, so Nathalies ponytail had ended up behind it, pulled into the circulation system.
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