Name: The Memory Chalet
SKU: 4714955
Price: 16.89 EUR
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Author: Tony Judt
ISBN: 9780143119975

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tony Judt

Publisher

Penguin

Topic

personal memoirs

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

226

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780143119975

Synopsis "The Memory Chalet "

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Final reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt. Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus route becomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells all come alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhood through Paris, Prague, and points east to New York, where he found his home. Judt brings his moral clarity and wit to bear on everything from fast cars to radical politics and, finally, the devastating illness that took his life. This book, composed when Judt was paralyzed and unable physically to write, found its shape in the ordered rooms of a Swiss Chalet of the mind: a warm refuge in the closing darkness of his final years.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Tony Judt

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Tony Judt (Londres, 1948 - Nueva York, 2010) fue un eminente historiador, ensayista y académico británico, reconocido por su análisis profundo de la historia europea contemporánea y su labor como intelectual público. Educado en Cambridge y París, impartió clases en universidades como Oxford y Nueva York, donde fundó el Instituto Remarque. Su obra magna, Posguerra: Una historia de Europa desde 1945 (2005), es considerada una referencia esencial. Judt destacó por su defensa de la socialdemocracia y el debate público, reflejado en obras como Algo va mal (2010). Fue un polemista valiente que abordó temas complejos con rigor ético, incluso tras ser diagnosticado con esclerosis lateral amiotrófica (ELA), enfermedad que le causó la muerte a los 62 años.

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