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Verzeichnis einiger Verluste
Verzeichnis einiger Verluste | Judith Schalansky
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Die Weltgeschichte ist voller Dinge, die verloren sind mutwillig zerstrt oder im Lauf der Zeit abhandengekommen. In ihrem neuen Buch widmet sich Judith Schalansky dem, was das Verlorene hinterlsst: verhallte Echos und verwischte Spuren, Gerchte und Legenden, Auslassungszeichen und Phantomschmerzen. Ausgehend von verlorengegangenen Natur- und Kunstgegenstnden wie den Liedern der Sappho, dem abgerissenen Palast der Republik, einer ausgestorbenen Tigerart oder einer im Pazifik versunkenen Insel, entwirft sie ein naturgem unvollstndiges Verzeichnis des Verschollenen und Verschwundenen, das seine erzhlerische Kraft dort entfaltet, wo die herkmmliche berlieferung versagt. Die Protagonisten dieser Geschichten sind Figuren im Abseits, die gegen die Vergnglichkeit ankmpfen: ein alter Mann, der das Wissen der Menschheit in seinem Tessiner Garten hortet, ein Ruinenmaler, der die Vergangenheit erschafft, wie sie niemals war, die gealterte Greta Garbo, die durch Manhattan streift und sich fragt, wann genau sie wohl gestorben sein mag, und die Schriftstellerin Schalansky, die in den Leerstellen ihrer eigenen Kindheit die Geschichtslosigkeit der DDR aufsprt. So handelt dieses Buch gleichermaen vom Suchen wie vom Finden, vom Verlieren wie vom Gewinnen und zeigt, dass der Unterschied zwischen An- und Abwesenheit womglich marginal ist, solange es die Erinnerung gibt und eine Literatur, die erfahrbar macht, wie nah Bewahren und Zerstren, Verlust und Schpfung beieinanderliegen.
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Hooked_on_books
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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From buildings to art to an entire island, An Inventory of Losses explores 12 things which no longer exist, each in its own story/essay/chapter and each in a slightly different way. It‘s a clever and interesting book that I quite enjoyed.

2021 NBA longlist, translated lit

LeahBergen 👉 *boop* 3y
JennyM Aww, beautiful pup 🐶 ❤️ 3y
TheSpineView ❤🐕❤ 3y
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Hooked_on_books
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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Here‘s my #bookhaul from Powell‘s! There may also be some gifts I bought that aren‘t pictured. 🤫 What a good day! ☺️

vivastory What a fantastic haul! Someone I follow on Twitter was at Powell's recently & he mentioned that the stock is lower than normal 3y
Hooked_on_books @vivastory I would agree with that. There are spots where the shelves are more bare than they have historically been. They still have their in-person used book trade-in shut down (you can still do it by mail), and I‘m sure that‘s the driving factor. But since it‘s Powell‘s, there‘s still lots of books! 3y
LeahBergen I read Pope Joan shortly after it was published and loved it. 👍 3y
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TrishB @LeahBergen me too 👍🏻 3y
TrishB Great haul 👍🏻 3y
Hooked_on_books @LeahBergen @TrishB I had never heard of it, but then I listened to a podcast the other day with Lauren Groff about Matrix (I am amazed how much I liked a book about 12th century nuns), and after her interview, they recommended thematically similar books, including this one, which sounded great. I‘m glad two excellent readers are endorsing it! 👍🏼 3y
squirrelbrain Great haul! 3y
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GatheringBooks
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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#ConflictedWorlds Day 22: #PersonVsInsecurities - I would assume that losses will bring about feelings of insecurity. Since we are now back in the UAE, we MUST have (healthy) Mediterranean food. Lebanese crab salad with pineapples and strawberries, the unforgettable falafel fatteh (crunchy pita bread, warm chickpeas, falafel, yogurt, topped with fresh pomegranates), and spinach pie on the side. Super comfort food.

kspenmoll Sounds so delicious ! 3y
Eggs Spinach pie 🥧 mmmmm 3y
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Lindy
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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Blurring the line between fiction and essay, the 12 pieces in this contemplative book are about things forgotten, destroyed, extinct or otherwise lost forever. The settings vary widely and each piece has its unique genre, tone or voice. From the strong introductory preface to the black-on-black images between stories to the final setting on the moon, I took my time and enjoyed the gorgeous prose #translated by Jackie Smith. #LGBTQ

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Lindy
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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The fragment, we know, is the infinite promise of Romanticism, the enduringly potent ideal of the modern age, and poetry, more than any other literary form, has come to be associated with the pregnant void, the blank space that breeds conjecture. […] Intact, Sappho‘s poems would be as alien to us as the once gaudily painted classical sculpture.
(Image: Vinzenz Brinkmann online)

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Lindy
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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At some point someone taps me on the shoulder. My mother‘s voice says: It‘s over. I open my eyes. We are back outside. I kept my eyes closed the whole time, I say proudly. I cheated it. I cheated fear. What a waste of money, says my mother and lifts me out of the car.
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Lindy
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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It is as if, in the places where the singing has faded away and the words are missing, where the papyrus scrolls are rotten and torn, dots had appeared, first singly, then in pairs, and soon in the vague pattern of a rhythmic triad—the notation of a silent lament.
(The Love Songs of Sappho)

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Lindy
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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This book, like all others, springs from the desire to have something survive, to bring the past into the present, to call to mind the forgotten, to give voice to the silenced, and to mourn the lost. Writing cannot bring anything back, but it can enable everything to be experienced.

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Lindy
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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I was leading the life of a home dweller, of a library frequenter, permanently on the lookout for new research subjects to shed light on some hidden source of my existence and lend some kind of meaning to my life by the semblance of a daily work routine. So once again: they thought what they thought, and they saw what they saw, and they were right.

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Bigwig
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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This book should be read slowly and with care, as Judith Schalansky‘s meditations on lost objects and places had to teach me how to encounter them. Each meditation unspooled in an unexpected way, and once I realized that the meandering journey was the point, I settled into the rhythms and tried to match up to the author‘s breadth of imagination. The text is dense and indulgent. Some of the ideas still scratch at me late at night. A unique meal.

Nute Stacking! 3y
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Simona
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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Chapters starts with different objects/theme (house, animal, film, painting ...) lost to the world forever, and from there, she knits around those objects some fictional narrative, or some personal memories, essays ... I think that content of this book is remarkable idea, that the title is brilliant, but ... each chapter is written in a different style (very bold decision), but unfortunately that is also what makes this book just ... 👇

Simona ... okayish. An uneven strength of the prose, and uneven expressiveness of narration is the weakest part of the book, but yes, still interesting read. #InternationalBookerPrize2021 4y
rockpools Yep, yep and yep. 4y
Simona @rockpools We are on the same page❣️ I‘m missing your reviews ... 4y
rockpools @Simona I can‘t keep up! Will try and get another couple in at the weekend- work is getting in the way! We might not agree on my next one 😉😂😘 4y
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Simona
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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Did I just get a hint to read Clarke‘s Piranesi⁉️

Moray_Reads The universe is speaking to you! (It's really good) 4y
rockpools YES YOU DID! This was where this one picked up for me 😊 4y
BarbaraBB You definitely did 😀 4y
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Simona @Moray_Reads @rockpools @BarbaraBB Well then ... so I will put it on my May bookspin list😁 4y
batsy Yes, what @Moray_Reads said! Also, this passage is itself intriguing so I'm adding this one to the list :) 4y
Simona @batsy I was hesitant about this book, and now I‘m glad that it is on longlist. She has interesting narrative style. 4y
Suet624 Piranesi was a favorite of mine. 4y
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rockpools
An Inventory of Losses | Judith Schalansky
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A confused just-a-pick. It may have been a more solid pick had I read the print (Schalansky is also a book designer. Kindle doesn‘t cut it), gone in with no expectations (I love her Remote Islands) and read it as a dip-in-and-out, rather than cover-to-cover.

The book is a mix of genres, essays and short stories, around things which are no more. The lost things themselves are fascinating - I could easily fall down a Google rabbit hole to learn

rockpools more about any of them. And the writing is great. I have to say, though, I enjoyed the chapters that sat closer to non-fiction - sometimes what we know (or what we don‘t know) is that much more interesting than what someone else imagines. 4y
rockpools I‘m not too sure how I‘m going to turn this into a coherent review for you @BookwormM - will attempt it this afternoon! 4y
Simona Ooo, it sounds like In Memory of Memory ... just the different topic! 4y
BookwormM 🤣🤣looking forward to it 4y
rockpools @Simona I‘m not even sure the topic‘s that different- just collective memory/forgetting/loss rather than personal. 4y
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nosferatu
Verzeichnis einiger Verluste | Judith Schalansky
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A truly evocative bundle of narratives and essays, some amazing and some okay.