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The Memory Chalet

内容简介

SelectedbyTheNewYorkTimesBookReviewasaNotableBookoftheYearFinalreflectionsonahappylife-fromacclaimedhistorianTonyJudt.TonyJudt'sTheMemoryChaletisamemoirunlikeanyother.Eachessaybringsthesmallestdetailsofpersonalexperienceintothelargerframeofhistory.Judt'syouthfulloveofaLondonbusroutebecomesareflectiononpubliccivility.FoodandtrainsandsmellsallcomealiveasJudttakesusfromthepostwarLondonofhischildhoodthroughParis,Prague,andpointseasttoNewYork,wherehefoundhishome.Judtbringshismoralclarityandwittobearoneverythingfromfastcarstoradicalpoliticsand,finally,thedevastatingillnessthattookhislife.Thisbook,composedwhenJudtwasparalyzedandunablephysicallytowrite,founditsshapeintheorderedroomsofaSwissChaletofthemind:awarmrefugeintheclosingdarknessofhisfinalyears.

作者简介

TonyJudtwastheErichMariaRemarqueProfessorofEuropeanStudiesatNewYorkUniversity,aswellasthefounderanddirectoroftheRemarqueInstitute,dedicatedtocreatinganongoingconversationbetweenEuropeandtheUnitedStates.HewaseducatedatKing’sCollege,Cambridge,andtheÉcoleNormaleSupérieure,Paris,andalsotaughtatCambridge,Oxford,andBerkeley.ProfessorJudtwasafrequentcontributortoTheNewYorkReviewofBooks,TheTimesLiterarySupplement,TheNewRepublic,TheNewYorkTimes,andmanyjournalsacrossEuropeandtheUnitedStates.Heistheauthororeditoroffifteenbooks,includingThinkingtheTwentiethCentury,TheMemoryChalet,IllFarestheLand,Reappraisals:ReflectionsontheForgottenTwentiethCentury,andPostwar:AHistoryofEuropeSince1945,whichwasoneofTheNewYorkTimesBookReview’sTenBestBooksof2005,thewinneroftheCouncilonForeignRelationsArthurRossBookAward,andafinalistforthePulitzerPrize.HediedinAugust2010attheageofsixty-two.

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