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The Memory Chalet 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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- Titul
- The Memory Chalet
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Tony Judt
- Vydavateľ
- Penguin Press
- Rok vydania
- 2010
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 226
- ISBN10
- 1594202893
- ISBN13
- 9781594202896
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Historické téma, História, Skutočné príbehy, Životopisy, Autobiografie & Pamäti, Publicistika & Eseje, Spomienky, Život, Veľká Británia, New York, Londýn, Choroby, Štúdium, Švajčiarsko, Paríž, Detstvo, Úvahy a zamyslenia, D dejiny 20. storočia, Povojnove obdobie
- Prvé vydanie
- 2010
- Pôvodný názov
- The Memory Chalet
- Hodnotenie
- 4,25 z 5
- Anotácia
- The Memory Chalet 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.