Judith Schalansky - Free Library Land Online - Contemporary https://contemporary.library.land/ ru Judith Schalansky - Free Library Land Online - Contemporary DataLife Engine An Inventory of Losses https://contemporary.library.land/judith-schalansky/575229-an_inventory_of_losses.html https://contemporary.library.land/judith-schalansky/575229-an_inventory_of_losses.html An Inventory of Losses

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

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...]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:01:55 +0200