An Inventory of Losses (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2021
Authors:	Judith Schalansky
Translators:	Jackie Smith
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-2963-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-8112-2963-7
Barcode:	9780811229630

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