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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Tuanaki
- Caspian tiger
- Guericke's unicorn
- Villa Sacchetti
- The boy in blue
- The love songs of Sappho
- The Von Behr Palace
- The Seven Books of Mani
- Greifswald Harbor
- Encyclopedia in the wood
- Palace of the Republic
- Kinau's selenographs.
