by Tony Judt · TAURUS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788430608171
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«El refugio de la memoria» is Tony Judt's memoir, published by Taurus in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
Written during his final months of life, the book brings together brief chapters that evoke personal memories to reflect on the history, politics and society of the twentieth century. Judt wrote these pieces while suffering from a degenerative disease, and the whole works as an intimate counterpoint to his work Postguerra.
Second edition in the Pensamiento collection, with flaps. Judt died in 2010; the book was published on 15 February 2011.
For readers of memoirs and historical essays, especially those who want to complete their reading of Postguerra with the personal view of its author.
Tony Robert Judt was an English historian, author, essayist and professor who specialised in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and director of NYU's Remarque Institute. He was director of the New York Institute for the Humanities from 1993 to 1996. Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.
