Judith Schalansky, born in Greifswald in 1980, lives in Berlin and works as a writer, book designer, and editor (of the prestigious natural history list at Matthes und Seitz).Her books, including the international bestseller Atlas of Remote Islands and the novel The Giraffe's Neck, have been translated into more than twenty languages. Jackie Smith is a literary translator working from German

Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses (tr. Jackie Smith), which appeared in English last year, takes a different ‘loss’ as a starting point for each chapter: the Caspian tiger, the disappeared island of Tuanaki, Armand Schulthess’s remarkable sounding ‘encyclopaedia in the wood’, to name just three.

Artifacts are buried. Islands slip into the ocean. In An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky surveys some of the things that … With meticulous research and 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, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory. 2020-12-08 2020-12-08 2021-01-29 Early in Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses, the narrator describes the way an ancient form of writing survived oblivion.The soft clay tablets on which the proto-ancient Greek script known as Linear B were written, detailing the income and expenditure of the Palace of Knossos, were hardened by a fire that destroyed nearly everything else around them, including most of the palace itself.

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2021-03-11 · Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses (tr. Jackie Smith), which appeared in English last year, takes a different ‘loss’ as a starting point for each chapter: the Caspian tiger, the disappeared island of Tuanaki, Armand Schulthess’s remarkable sounding ‘encyclopaedia in the wood’, to name just three.

An Inventory of Losses, World history is full of things that have gone astray – willfully destroyed or mislaid over the course of time. In her new book, Judith Schalansky dedicates herself to that which the lost leaves behind: dying echoes and disappearin Judith Schalansky’s strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully with her best-selling Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will, which Robert MacFarlane called “utterly exquisite” (Guardian) and about which Sarah Schalansky's book An Inventory of Losses introduces readers to an eclectic group of 12 things that no longer exist, from extinct species to ruined castles. But early on, Schalansky notes that sometimes the opposite happens — something is pulled back into public consciousness after a period of dormancy.

An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky. "A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian "As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a

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Apr 13, 2021 Physically gorgeous and conceptually arresting, Schalansky's An Inventory of Losses is one of the most delightful literary treats: a genre-less  An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky, Translated by Jackie Smith. $24.95. A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of  Dec 18, 2020 Fond of absence: Judith Schalansky embraces the impermanent. An Inventory of Losses, by Judith Schalansky, translated by Jackie Smith,  May 26, 2020 An Inventory of Losses Schalansky's inspired latest (after Atlas of Remote Islands) melds history, memoir, and fiction into something new and  This genre-defying catalog of things that no longer exist takes on a variety of styles, from researched histories to richly imagined narratives. A vanished island, the  Mar 8, 2021 An Inventory of Losses.
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Her international best-seller, Atlas of Remote Islands, won the Stiftung Buchkunst (the Art Book Award) for “the most beautifully designed book of the year”, while her novel, The Giraffe’s Neck, in an English translation by Shaun Whiteside, won a special commendation An Inventory of Losses User Review - Publishers Weekly. Schalansky’s inspired latest (after Atlas of Remote Islands) melds history, memoir, and fiction into something new and extraordinary: a museum of the extinct, the missing, and the forgotten 2020-12-08 Judith Schalansky’s strange and wonderful new book, recalling writers as different as W.G. Sebald and Christa Wolf, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, sees her return to the territory she explored so successfully with her best-selling Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will, which Robert MacFarlane called “utterly exquisite” (Guardian) and about which Schalansky is at her strongest, it seems to me, when she has least need to compromise. But there is no doubt that at these times, her work is very strong indeed.

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2020-12-08 · Judith Schalansky’s collection “An Inventory of Losses” is classified as “Fiction/Essay,” a blurry and enviable label rare in American letters but championed by the book’s publisher

Judith Schalansky; Harper Collins With each passing year, parts of the world are lost. Species become extinct. Old texts fade from print. Artifacts are buried.