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The Guardian - 23/02/2002 - Classic journeys - di Giles Foden
Scrittori e poeti hanno sempre attratto curiosi e turisti nei luoghi da loro descritti. In questo articolo l'Autore ne tratta in riferimento al Regno Unito, all'Irlanda ed all'isola greca di Cefalonia. Ovviamente, qui ci limitiamo a riportare quanto attiene a Londra.
Sebbene normalmente i luoghi di interesse letterario descritti dagli scrittori e poeti siano belli di per sé, questa non è una condizione essenziale per attrarre i curiosi e turisti, i quali possono voler vedere qualcosa di differente. Ad esempio, "Visitors could even see objects that had featured in the novels", cioè, possono vedere degli oggetti descritti nelle opere letterarie.
E' possibile, anzi, accade di frequente, che non siano i luoghi, nè gli oggetti ad attrarre i lettori, ma i personaggi descritti nelle opere: "Sometimes, the association with the writer, dead or alive, is less important than with a character the author created. People don't go to 221b Baker Street in search of the shade of Conan Doyle, but of a revenant Sherlock Holmes".
Numerosi autori, viventi e non, hanno contribuito ad attirare curiosi in varie zone di Londra: "Other parts of London have, more recently, had the benefit of what amounts to an industrial regeneration grant, through the activities of two living writers. Peter Ackroyd and Ian Sinclair have presided over the rise of the East End as a trendy place to live and visit. Many a literary tourist now treks out to the murderous churches of Ackroyd's novel Hawksmoor (1993) in Spitalfields and Wapping .... Ackroyd and Sinclair are both great enthusiasts for London walking ... In this they are even dogged by the spectre of Dickens, whose own manic, nightly journeys accross London are a far cry from the guided 'Dickens walks' now available ... You could, of course, walk right accross London following in writer's footsteps, from Daniel Defoe's Stoke Newington .... to James Barrie's Kensington. It was on Bayswater Road that Barrie used to walk his dog, Luath, the prototype for Nana in Peter Pan (1904). On the way back, start at Kensington Church Street, where Charlotte Bronte visiting Thackeray at number 13 (now number 16), 'enters in mittens, in silence, in seriousness'. Pause at 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, where John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps (1913) and then make your way down the Euston Road. Stop for a drink in Islington: where Ackroyd and Charles Lamb inhabit the same street, Duncan Terrace .... Finally, make your way back to Stoke Newington, where Edgard Allan Poe went to school and William Hazlitt had a mansion".
