An Inventory Of Losses Judith Schalansky Jackie Smith Translation by Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith (translation) 9780811229647, 0811229645, B07WQ1ZK7Y instant download after payment.

With an engaging intensity of feeling, Judith Schalansky's strange & wonderful book pays elegant homage to past beauty now lost to this world. Translated by Jackie Smith.

Each of the disparate objects described within An Inventory of Losses follows the conventions of a different genre, as it considers something that shares a common irretrievable fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. These include the paradisal pacific island of Tuanaki, the Caspian Tiger, the Villa Sacchetti in Rome, Sappho’s love poems, Greta Garbo’s fading beauty, a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, & the former East Germany Palace of the Republic.  

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 & loss.  

With meticulous research & 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, & deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.

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Judith Schalansky was born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She works as a freelance writer & book designer in Berlin. She studied art history & communication design. Her international best-seller, Atlas of Remote Islands, won the Stiftung Buchkunst for ‘the most beautifully designed book of the year’. Her novel, The Giraffe’s Neck, in an English translation by Shaun Whiteside, won a special commendation of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for the best translation from German in 2015.