Memory House
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About This Novel
This book is Tony Judt's oral memoir after he suffered from ALS. It is also the only work in which Judt talks about himself. In the silent nights where he could not move, Judt used space as a clue to search and organize past memories, and built a "memory house". He admitted that his writing during his illness basically came from his night visits to the memory cabin. He sometimes focuses on small things, describing his grandmother's Jewish cuisine, London's Green Line buses, and Swiss trains. Sometimes he looks at the wider world and talks about the farcical movements of the post-war generation in Western Europe, the ideological constraints of the era, and his own observations and participation in society. These words shuttle between the moving and the sharp, the private and the public, the specific history and the individual feelings of being involved in it. They trace not only the life course of a historian, but also the complex history of the 20th century. The "Works of Tony Judt" series also includes "Postwar European History", "Sickness Everywhere", "On Europe", "Thinking about the 20th Century: The Thoughtful Autobiography of Tony Judt", "The Burden of Responsibility: Bloom, Camus, Aron and France in the 20th Century", "The Unfinished Past: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956", "After Facts Changed", "Revaluing Values" (new edition to be released), etc.
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