by Tony Judt · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143119975
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«The Memory Chalet» is a collection of personal essays by Tony Judt, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Tony Judt wrote this book while a degenerative disease left him paralysed. In these essays he reconstructs his life: childhood in postwar London, his years in Paris and Prague, travels across the United States and his arrival in New York. Everyday memories such as a bus route, food or trains join reflections on history, radical politics and death.
It was originally published in 2010; this paperback edition dates from 2011. Tony Judt is also the author of Postwar, and the work was selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year.
It is aimed at readers of memoirs and historical essays, with an interest in twentieth-century Europe and in the author's public and cultural life.
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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.
