If you wish to understand the many layers of the city then you need to picture in your mind's eye a cross-section of the city.
In this mesmerising and highly original work, Antoni Jach conjures up the modern city - its street life and underground life, its beggars and bourgeoisie, its public parks and gardens, its hidden apartments and rooms - and meditates on the layers of civilization and barbarism which have gone into its making. Tumbling through space and time, he takes us also to fifth century Provence, with the Romans polishing their rhetoric behind their city walls while the barbarians wait at the gates.
