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<i>The Memory Chalet</i> 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 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 road trips 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.
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The Memory Chalet, Tony Judt
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- Pubblicato
- 2010
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- Titolo
- The Memory Chalet
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Tony Judt
- Editore
- Penguin Press
- Pubblicato
- 2010
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 226
- ISBN10
- 1594202893
- ISBN13
- 9781594202896
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Biografie, Autobiografie e memorie, USA, Biografie, XX Secolo, Giornalismo d’opinione & Saggi, 21° Secolo, Storiografia, Civiltà occidentale
- Descrizione
- <i>The Memory Chalet</i> 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 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 road trips 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.