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The Memory Chalet

Door Tony Judt

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#384243-UE10
Titel
The Memory Chalet
Auteur
Judt, Tony
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : William Heinemann
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
0434020966
ISBN13
9780434020966
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head..." -Tony Judt The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student ... (Lees verder)riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation 'was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution'. A series of roadtrips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt's attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet - a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory.
Pagina's
225
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 7,00

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