TY  - BOOK
AU  - Judt,Tony
TI  - The memory chalet
SN  - 9781594202896
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Twentieth century
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Essays
KW  - Travel writing
N1  - Included bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "'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
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