The Memory Chalet
(Sprache: Englisch)
A collection of stirring, poignant personal essays from Tony Judt, one of our leading historians.
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A collection of stirring, poignant personal essays from Tony Judt, one of our leading historians.
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"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head..." -Tony Judt
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 roadtrips acrossAmerica 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Tony Judt
Tony Judt, geboren 1948 in London, ist Historiker. Sein Arbeitsschwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der europäischen Geschichte seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er ist seit 1995 Direktor des von ihm gegründeten Remarque-Instituts an der New York University.Judt studierte an der Universität Cambridge. Er erwarb dort 1969 den Bachelor of Arts und 1972 den PhD in Geschichtswissenschaft. 1966 arbeitete er in einem Kibbutz in Machanaim und während des Sechstagekrieges 1967 als Fahrer und Übersetzer für die israelische Armee. Seine prozionistische Haltung wurde aber immer stärker erschüttert. Judt trat 2003 durch ein Plädoyer für eine Einstaatenlösung für Palästina hervor. Für seine Werke erhielt Tony Judt verschiedene Auszeichnungen, u. a. 2007 den "Hannah Arendt-Preis" für politisches Denken.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tony Judt
- 2010, 240 Seiten, Maße: 14,6 x 22,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
- ISBN-10: 0434020966
- ISBN-13: 9780434020966
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Memory Chalet “
"A book to treasure...The chambers of his memory chalet will live on long after him: witty, profound, controversial...for they tell you, more clearly than any work of imagination, what the last few months of life are like. In a sense, you learn how to die yourself...Wonderfully written...He has the natural essayist's ability to riff on a diverting theme...Through these pages, he emerges as a wellspring of enlightenment you need to spend time with...A slim volume that oscillates constantly between brilliance and exasperation and love. He has the eye for detail of a historian, and the empathy of a human being...Will move, educate and perhaps inspire for many years. This chalet is built of stone, on the firmest foundations." -- Peter Preston Observer "Tony Judt, had a wonderful prose style, and his little book The Memory Chalet, a collection of autobiographical essays, is beautiful and moving. Although Judt, who suffered from motor neurone disease, died earlier this year, this late work is more sustaining than sad." -- John Banville Guardian, Books of the Year "My book of the year is the volume of essays, The Memory Chalet, many of which were written as he was dying of motor neurone disease and were published originally in The New York Review of Books. Judt was one of the finest historians of the past half-century and a brilliant memoirist and essayist." -- Chris Patten Financial Times, Books of the Year "In examining his past, Judt has managed to write what amounts to a Bildungsroman of one of the most distinctive writerly personas of the age. At the same time, he has told us something important about ourselves: about what we were and what we have become." -- Jonathan Derbyshire New Statesman "I've been deeply moved by Tony Judt's reminiscence-in-essays." -- Claire Messud Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
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