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An Inventory of Losses. Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith

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ISBN: 9780811229630 | 224 pages | 6 Mb

• An Inventory of Losses
• Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith
• Page: 224
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9780811229630
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands 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.

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