An inventory of losses / Judith Schalansky ; translated from the German by Jackie Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schalansky, Judith, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Smith, Jackie (Translator), translator.

Standardized Title:

Verzeichnis einiger Verluste. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology).

Extinction (Biology).

Lost articles.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

First published in the German language as Verzeichnis einiger Verluste by Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, in 2018.

ISBN:

9780811229630

0811229637

OCLC:

1122913021

Publisher Number:

99985857930