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Buch (Hardcover): Belletristik
An Inventory of Losses
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New Directions Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 7NV944N
EAN: 9780811229630
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Beschreibung
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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Judith Schalansky
- Jackie Smith
Thema
- Belletristik: Allgemein
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2020
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 224