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"Memory Chalet" Author: [US] Tony Judt Publisher: CITIC Press Original title: The Memory Chalet
"Memory Chalet" Author: [US] Tony Judt Publisher: CITIC Press Original title: The Memory Chalet
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Introduction · · · · · ·
◆Selected as one of the most anticipated books of the year by The New York Times Book Review
◆An intellectual memoir reflecting the tide of the century
◆Tony Judt’s most personal memoir, with a new long memorial from Judt’s son
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【Content Introduction】
This book is a memoir narrated by Tony Judt after he was diagnosed with ALS.
In the silent and immobile nights, Judt used space as a clue to search and organize past memories and built a "memory hut". He admitted that his writing during his illness was basically based on his night visits to the memory hut. Sometimes he focused on small things, describing his grandmother's Jewish cuisine, London's Green Line buses, and Switzerland's small trains. Sometimes he looked at the world, discussing the farcical revolutions of the post-war generation in Western Europe, the ideological confinement of the times, and his own observations and participation in politics. These words shuttle between moving and sharp, private and public, specific history and individual feelings in it, tracing not only the life journey of a historian, but also the complex history of the 20th century.
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【Media Comments】
It is both an autobiography and an interesting little book about the history of the second half of the 20th century.
——Times
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A straightforward intellectual autobiography that is as refreshing as the Swiss air that blows through Judt's memory room. You might expect a memoir written under these circumstances to have a sentimental air, but there is none of the deathbed doldrums. The curiosity, fearless intellect, taste for juicy detail and crystalline prose all reveal a man ruled not by death but by life.
——The Daily Telegraph
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These articles were not written for publication. ... At the end of his life, he tried to find and define himself, leaving some facts that his close and dear people could remember and believe. ... His writing vibrates back and forth between brilliance, anger and love. He has the eye of a historian to capture details and the sympathy of an ordinary person.
——The Observer
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【Editor's recommendation】
Editor's Recommendation:
◆Tony Judt is one of the most famous public intellectuals in the Western academic community. He was selected as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by Foreign Policy magazine, and in 2009 he received the Orwell Lifetime Achievement Award for his "wisdom, insight and extraordinary courage."
◆The Memory Cabin contains the texts written by Tony Judt after he became ill. During the sleepless nights of his illness, Judt went into the "Memory Cabin" again and again to retrieve and sort out his life memories, and dictated them to the recorder during the day. These autobiographical stories are full of vivid details and unique life experiences, and the breath and sounds of the past days are reproduced.
◆The new edition of "Memory Cabin" includes for the first time an article by Judt's son Daniel Judt recalling his father. Daniel wrote about the unknown side of Judt as a historian, but more about the description and remembrance of Judt as a father. Daniel's writing is warm and restrained, delicate and moving.
About the Author · · · · · ·
【About the author】
Tony Judt
A famous historian, he is known for his in-depth research on European issues and European thought. Born in London, England in 1948, he graduated from King's College, Cambridge University and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He taught at Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of California, Berkeley and New York University.
In 1995, he founded the Remarque Institute, which specializes in the study of European issues; in 1996, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2007, he was elected a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and won the Hannah Arendt Prize; in 2008, he was selected as one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" by the American "Foreign Policy" magazine; in 2009, he won the Orwell Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding "wisdom, insight and extraordinary courage".
Tony Judt has long been writing for mainstream European and American media such as The New Republic, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. He has become a highly respected intellectual with his sharp liberal critical stance and is known as an "intellectual among intellectuals." His major works include Postwar Europe, The Sickness of the World, After the Facts Have Changed, The Burden of Responsibility, The Unfinished Past, Revaluing Values, and Thinking about the 20th Century. Among them, Postwar Europe is hailed as "a great work that cannot be surpassed in a short period of time."
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Translator’s Profile
He Jingzhi, her other translations include "Secret Grin", "Life Goes On", "Science Collided with "Sex"", "Conservative People", etc.
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