by Tony Judt · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099555599
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In 'The Memory Chalet', Tony Judt, affected by a degenerative disease, revisits his past to maintain sanity. Through dictated essays, Judt explores memories and experiences, from his love for a London bus route to the student riots of 1968 in Paris and trips across America. Each memory becomes a profound reflection on public civility, European sexual politics, and American history, all arranged with the precision and beauty of a Swiss chalet, offering a refuge in the mountains of memory.
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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.
