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<i>The Memory Chalet</i> 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 road trips across America 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.
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The Memory Chalet, Tony Judt
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- The Memory Chalet
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tony Judt
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN10
- 1594202893
- ISBN13
- 9781594202896
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, USA, Biographies, 20th century, Opinion Journalism & Essays, 21st Century, Historiography, Western Civilization
- Description
- <i>The Memory Chalet</i> 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 road trips across America 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.