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An Inventory of Losses

By Judith Schalansky

An Inventory of Losses Essays & Short Stories

An Inventory of Losses

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2020-12-08
Publication Date:
2020-12-08
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811229637
ISBN13:
9780811229630
Weight:
322 g
Height:
123 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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