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Straten, Giorgio Van

 
9781782273721: In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1782273727 ISBN 13: 9781782273721
Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances.

They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them.
This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books.

Taking us from Florence to Regency London, the Russian Steppe to British Columbia, Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy, glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate. There are, among others, the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron, burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz, disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality.

As gripping as a detective novel, as moving as an elegy, this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible, of the things that slip away from us but which, sometimes, live again in the stories we tell.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 My Name 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.

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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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Verlag
Pushkin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782273727
ISBN 13 
9781782273721
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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