An inventory of losses
"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,...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing Corporation,
2021.
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| Series: | New Directions paperbook ;
NDP 1519. |
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| Summary: | "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, and Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and that, taken as a whole, open mesmerizing new vistas of how to 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." -- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. First published in the German language as Verzeichnis einiger Verluste by Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, in 2018. |
| Physical Description: | 253 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0811231410 9780811231411 |
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