The Memory Chalet

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'the Memory Chalet' Is A Memoir Unlike Any You Have Ever Read Before. Each Essay Charts Some Experience Or Remembrance Of The Past Through The Sieve Of Tony Judt's Prodigious Mind. His Youthful Love Of A Particular London Bus Route Evolves Into A Reflection On Public Civility And Interwar Urban Planning. Memories Of The 1968 Student Riots Of Paris Meander Through The Divergent Sex Politics Of Europe, Before Concluding That His Generation 'was A Revolutionary Generation, But Missed The Revolution.' A Series Of Road Trips Across America Lead Not Just To An Appreciation Of American History, But To An Eventual Acquisition Of Citizenship. Foods And Trains And Long-lost Smells All Compete For Judt's Attention; But For Us, He Has Forged His Reflections Into An Elegant Arc Of Analysis. All As Simply And Beautifully Arranged As A Swiss Chalet-a Reassuring Refuge Deep In The Mountains Of Memory.--dust Jacket Flap. The Memory Chalet -- Night -- Austerity -- Food -- Cars -- Putney -- The Green Line Bus -- Mimetic Desire -- The Lord Warden -- Joe -- Kibbutz -- Bedder -- Paris Was Yesterday -- Revolutionaries -- Work -- Meritocrats -- Words -- Go West, Young Judt -- Midlife Crisis -- Captive Minds -- Girls, Girls, Girls -- New York, New York -- Edge People -- Toni -- Magic Mountains Tony Judt.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs Show more