The Golden Lane: Travels Across Europe

The Golden Lane: Travels Across Europe

Book Code: 1111036803347

Gopikrishnan Kottoor

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*The Title 'The Golden Lane: Travels Across Europe written/authored/edited by Gopikrishnan Kottoor', published in the year 2026. The ISBN 9789356631724 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 148 (Pages). The publisher of this title is GenNext Publication. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Travel Writing / Travel . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms.

Year:

2026

Language:

English

Publisher:

GenNext Publication

Pages:

148

Book Category:

pub

Subject:

Travel Writing , Travel

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Golden Lane: Travels Across Europe

The Golden Lane moves through Europe with the unhurried gaze of a traveller who sees beneath surfaces — through Berlin and Prague, Amsterdam and Paris, Barcelona and Venice, Florence and Rome — distilling the essence of each place with felicity and grace.

The lives of Franz Kafka and Anne Frank, Dante Alighieri and John Keats deepen its reflective current, as do the modernisme of AntoniGaudí, the sensuality of La Goulue, the nightlife of Pigalle, and the candlelit wildness of the Moulin Rouge. European history — its beauty, its catastrophe, the long shadow of the Holocaust — moves through these pages like a living presence.

Blending travel, history, and aesthetics into a single sustained meditation, The Golden Lane is a chef-d'oeuvre by one of India's finest poets — a work that lingers in the mind and in the memory.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gopikrishnan Kottoor is an award-winning poet and author. He founded Poetry Chain, which has a pan-Indian presence. He won the Augsburg Poetry Residency for his poem Father, Wake Us in Passing, which was translated into German. His work appears in Bloodaxe, Penguin Random House, Give the Sea Change, and Best Asian Poetry, among many others. A former General Manager with the Reserve Bank of India, he lives in Kerala.

CONTENTS

1	Flying to Berlin	9
	A Night in Berlin	11
	A Train to Prague	12
	Racek on the Moldau	13
	Praský Orloj, the Astronomical Clock	15
	Of Tramps, and Vintage Cars	16
	A Story of Franz Kafka in This Small Circle	17
	An Open-Air Festival	24
2	Budapest, Hungary	27
	The Houses of Terror	27
	The Vampire of Cinkota	27
3	Vienna, Austria	31
	The Beauties of Vienna	31
	Music and Wine	32
	Graz and Lovelocks	33
4	Venice, Italy	39
	A Tram to the City of Water	39
	Ponte di Rialto and Beyond	41
	Kissing in a Gondola	42
	Ezra Pound and the Cemetery Island	43
5	Florence, Italy	47
	Renaissance in Blossom	47
	The Hills of Tuscany	50
	Basilica di Santa Croce	51
	Palazzo Vecchio, and the Burning of Friar Girolamo Savonarola	56
	Sculptures at the Piazza della Signora	58
	Michelangelo and the Story of David	58
	The Story of a Young Florentine Girl	59
6	Amsterdam, Netherlands	61
	Anne Frank and the ‘Secret Annexe’	61
	‘Our Hiding Place’	62
	The Red Checkered Diary	63
	Anne’s Boyfriends: Split in Two. Peter And Petel	65
	Kissing in the Attic	65
	Oh, My Darling Petel	65
	The Arrest and After	66
	Closing in	68
7	Genoa, Italy	71
	Lady of the Sea	71
	Bombay and the Bay of Boccadasse	74
	Pizza de Ferrari	74
	The House of Columbus	75
	The Old Town of Genoa	77
	Of Palazzos and Gardens	79
	If Only We Had Met and Kissed Each Other	83
	A Freshness of Death	84
	Bruno Catalano’s Travellers Again	85
8	A Dreamback to England and Rome	87
	The Tower of London and a Killing Spree	89
	Stratford-Upon-Avon!	90
	Keats House, Wentworth, Hampstead	91
	The Vale of Health and Leigh Hunt	93
	The Keats-Shelley Memorial House by the Piazza di Spagna, Italy, Rome	93
	Here Lies One Whose Name Was Writ in Water	94
	Trevi Fountain and Beyond	95
	The Vatican	95
9	Marseille, Italy	97
	Gare Saint Charles	97
	Michelangelo’s ‘David’ Again	98
	Old Port, Marseille	99
10	Paris, France	103
	Notre Dame, Marseille, and Notre Dame, Paris: Our Ladies in France	103
	The Streets of Paris	104
	The Louvre	104
	A Hemingway Surprise	107
	Montmartre and Montparnasse	107
	Of Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec, La Goulue, and Pigalle	108
11	Barcelona, Spain	113
	Modernisme, and all that Cuisine	113
	A Redness Unparalleled	113
	Of Oleanders, Palm Trees, and the Sea	114
	Antoni Gaudi and Architecture in the Heavens	115
	A Gourmet’s Paradise	117
	An Indian Touch	118
12	A Mediterranean Rhapsody	121
13	Lyon, France	123
	A Station Wonder and Beyond	123
	Frida Kahlo Everywhere	124
	Vieux Lyon, and the Three Quarters	126
	The Scent of a Woman and Other Perfumes	127
	The Lumiere Brothers and the Beginnings of Cinema	129
14	Switzerland	131
	The Poetry of Switzerland	131
	Banking in Basel	132
15	Crossing the Border to Weil Am Rhein, Germany	133
16	Germany	135
	Wolfsburg and Adolf Hitler	135
	Buchenwald, Weimar	137
	Back Along the River Aller	138
	Augsburg and Munich	139
	Of Hanover and Beer Gartens	140
	Flying into Hamburg	140
	Red Lights at Reeperbahn, St. Pauli	141
17	Heinrich von Kleist, Max Lieberman, and Rajvinder Singh	143
18	India Again!	147

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