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Straten, Giorgio Van

 
9781782273721: In Search of Lost Books: The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes
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ISBN 10 : 1782273727 ISBN 13 : 9781782273721
Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2017

Synopsis

Whatever happened to the books that once existed and can no longer be found? Not the forgotten books, or those dreamed up by the author yet never written, but books that were completed, even read, before begin destroyed or vanishing into thin air. These are the mythical books that were burnt, torn, stolen, or simply disappeared, but which certainly existed.
In this elegiac and gripping volume, Girogio van Straten is by turns detective and spy, traveller and schools, as he sifts through clues, pursues leads, and interviews experts to discover the stories of these eight lost tomes, and their authors. His pursuit takes him around the world, and across decades to discover serendipitous encounters and unexpected connections.
From Byron's England to Sylvia Plath's, and on to France in the 1920s and Hemingway, across Gogol's Russia and from there to the Spanish frontier where Walter Benjamin tried to flee his destiny, from Nazi-occupied Poland where Bruno Schulz was killed in an argument between German officers and finally to a remote village in Canada where Malcolm Lowry took refuge...

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À propos de l'auteur

Giorgio van Straten is director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and one of the editors of the literature review Nuovi Argomenti. He is the author of several novels, including the prize-winning A Living Memory, along with two collections of short stories. He has translated the works of authors such as Kipling, London and Stevenson and has edited several works of non-fiction.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Whatever happened to the books that once existed and can no longer be found? Not the forgotten books, or those dreamed up by the author yet never written, but books that were completed, even read, before begin destroyed or vanishing into thin air. These are the mythical books that were burnt, torn, stolen, or simply disappeared, but which certainly existed.
In this elegiac and gripping volume, Girogio van Straten is by turns detective and spy, traveller and schools, as he sifts through clues, pursues leads, and interviews experts to discover the stories of these eight lost tomes, and their authors. His pursuit takes him around the world, and across decades to discover serendipitous encounters and unexpected connections.
From Byron's England to Sylvia Plath's, and on to France in the 1920s and Hemingway, across Gogol's Russia and from there to the Spanish frontier where Walter Benjamin tried to flee his destiny, from Nazi-occupied Poland where Bruno Schulz was killed in an argument between German officers and finally to a remote village in Canada where Malcolm Lowry took refuge...

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Éditeur
Pushkin Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1782273727
ISBN 13 
9781782273721
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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