An Inventory of Losses

di Judith Schalansky (Autore)

Jackie Smith (Traduttore)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022

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.

• Autore: Judith Schalansky
• Traduttore: Jackie Smith
• Editore: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 201 x 122 mm
• Peso: 250 gr.
• EAN: 9780811231411

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