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Tony Judt

The Memory Chalet

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'Faced with the prospect of death [he has] produced a great testament of faith and humanity...Tony Judt's dying words make the connection between memory and society' Fintan O'Toole, Observer, Books of the YearThe Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience of remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His love of a particular bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility, memories of the 1968 student riots meander through the sexual politics of Europe, a series of roadtrips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history but to an… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4464-0934-3
  • EAN: 9781446409343
  • Produktnummer: 14348762
  • Verlag: Cornerstone
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 479 KB

Über den Autor


Tony Judt was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University; in addition to Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of fourteen books, Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Republic, the New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US. Professor Judt is the author of Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, which was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August, 2010 at the age of sixty-two.

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