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Bezig met laden... Verzeichnis einiger Verluste (editie 2020)door Judith Schalansky (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Come è naturale che sia, non tutti i racconti di questa peculiare raccolta sono allo stesso livello, ma la scrittura - e la traduzione - è sempre ottima, ricca e densa. L'autrice ha curiosità, capacità di ricerca e racconto che riescono a rendere queste "cose perdute" memorabili grazie alla capacità di appiccicarvi piccole storie. Un libro per molti versi vicino a un altro del 2021, cioè Quando abbiamo smesso di capire il mondo di Benjamín Labatut. ( ) Schalansky uncovers and imagines stories around wrecks and ruins and forgotten things—lost islands, crumbling villas, a library stamped on tin plates hung in a cypress grove—in a book that requires close and careful reading. She shifts voices unexpectedly, sliding from first- to third- to second-person, visits ancient and medieval worlds and living memory, and crafts subtly suggestive descriptive passages in deceptively simple language. She lets us see that what lasts (if we want it) are the words and stories and voices that people leave behind. A quirky mix of essays and stories riffing on things that have been lost to history — species, books, buildings, paintings and films, amongst others. The essays/stories are often at a tangent to the ostensible topic, thus Murnau’s lost first film prompts a story about the elderly Garbo living in New York; a demolished chateau near Greifswald leads us into a memory of the author’s early life, and a lost Caspar David Friedrich painting into the description of her attempt to follow the river Ryck from source to sea. The central idea seems to be that the Second Law of thermodynamics is reflected in all corners of human experience: our attempts to organise information in one place only result in disorder and destruction somewhere else. But an engaging and unpredictable read, anyway. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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