An inventory of losses / Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Jackie Smith.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780811229630
- ISBN: 0811229637
- Physical Description: 253 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. First published in the German language as Verzeichnis einiger Verluste by Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, in 2018. |
Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
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Subject: | Loss (Psychology) Extinction (Biology) Lost articles. Antiquities. Antiquities. Extinction (Biology) Loss (Psychology) Lost articles. |
Genre: | Essays. |
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Homer Public Library | F SCHALANSKY (Text) | 000159350 | Fiction | Available | - |