An Inventory of Losses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811231411)

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, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can 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.

Author: Judith Schalansky
ISBN-10: 0811231410
ISBN-13: 9780811231411
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.88h x 4.98w x 0.69d
Award: Man Booker International Prize - Nominee