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An Inventory of Losses
New Directions
ISBN13:
9780811229630
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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.
- | Author: Judith Schalansky
- | Publisher: New Directions
- | Publication Date: September 29, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0811229637
- | ISBN-13: 9780811229630
- Author:
- Judith Schalansky
- Publisher:
- New Directions
- Publication Date:
- September 29, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 224 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0811229637
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811229630