Bibliograph

An inventory of losses, Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Jackie Smith

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An inventory of losses, Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Jackie Smith

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An inventory of losses

Oclc number

1122913021

Responsibility statement

Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Jackie Smith

Summary

"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

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