Judith Schalansky: An Inventory of Losses
An Inventory of Losses
Buch
- Übersetzung: Jackie Smith
- New Directions Publishing Corporation, 12/2020
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780811229630
- Bestellnummer: 9515170
- Umfang: 224 Seiten
- Gewicht: 318 g
- Maße: 203 x 124 mm
- Stärke: 23 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 8.12.2020
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Weitere Ausgaben von An Inventory of Losses
Klappentext
Each disparate object described in this book-a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific-shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss.With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.
