| Description |
253 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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First published in the German language as Verzeichnis einiger Verluste by Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, in 2018. |
| Contents |
Preamble ; Tuanaki ; Caspian Tiger ; Guerickes Unicorn ; Villa Sacchetti ; The boy in blue ; The love songs of Sappho ; The Von Behr Palace ; The seven books of Mani ; Greifswald Harbor ; Encyclopedia in the wood ; Palace of the Republic ; Kinaus Selenographs ; Index of Persons. |
| 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. |
| Added Author |
Smith, Jackie (Translator), translator.
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| Added Title |
Verzeichnis einiger Verluste. English.
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| ISBN |
9780811229630 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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