An inventory of losses

Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945 | Fiktionale Darstellung

Zusammenfassung: "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.)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780811231411 ; 9780811229630
• Dimensions: 20 cm
• Extent: 253 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Lizenz des Verlag Suhrkamp, Berlin

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: A new directions paperbook ; 1519

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Deutsche Literatur

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): New York
• (who): New Directions Publishing Corporation
• (when): [2020]
• Creator: Schalansky, Judith
• Contributor: Smith, Jackie

Further information

• Table of contents: Tuanaki -- Caspian tiger -- Guericke's 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 -- Kinau's selenographs.
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.03.2025, 12:31 PM CET