Catalog of Lost Things
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World history is full of things that have been lost - unintentionally destroyed or lost over time. In her book, Judith Schalansky tries to grasp what is left behind by the lost: echoes and faded traces, rumors and legends, signs of oblivion and phantom pains. The painting by Caspar David Friedrich, a view of a tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific Ocean - this by definition incomplete catalog of lost and disappeared becomes an ark for twelve stories, revealing their narrative power where ordinary tradition fails. The main characters of these stories - people or their spirits - are struggling with transience: an old man who preserves the knowledge of humanity in his garden in Ticino, an artist of ruins creating a past as it never was, an aging Greta Garbo wandering through Manhattan, guessing when she might have died, and the writer Judith Schalansky, tracing the traces of GDR history in the empty places of her own childhood.
This book, winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize, finalist for the International Booker Prize, has been praised by many critics worldwide, as it testifies that the difference between presence and absence can be insignificant as long as memory and literature exist, allowing us to feel how close preservation and destruction, loss and creation are to each other.
This book, winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize, finalist for the International Booker Prize, has been praised by many critics worldwide, as it testifies that the difference between presence and absence can be insignificant as long as memory and literature exist, allowing us to feel how close preservation and destruction, loss and creation are to each other.
Author:
Author:Shalansky Yudit
Cover:
Cover:softcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Romance & Love
Dimensions:
Dimensions:18.5x13x2.6 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91103-665-2
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