Tony Judt was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, in addition to being the Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995.
The author or editor of fourteen books, Professor Judt was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the United States. Professor Judt is the author of Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, which was one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2005, winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August 2010 at the age of sixty-two.
" It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head." -Tony Judt
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.
文 云也退 原载 《外滩画报》 死控制着我们对生的理解和表达,没有死之平等,世上一切回忆都将失去存在的意义。假如人类消灭了死亡,哪怕只是一小部分世人可以在地球上永生,撰写回忆录这门生意也将瞬间消失。假如世上问世了第一剂长生不死药,哪怕它的定价为 5 亿美元,...
评分 评分 评分“我们无法选择人生在何处启程,却可以选择在何处结尾。我知道我的选择:我要乘坐那辆小火车,无所谓终点,就这样一直坐下去。” 我也想坐一辆属于自己的小火车,像作者那样一直坐下去,的确就如作者所说:“无所谓终点。”我一直很享受追求途中的乐趣,享受途中所看到的美景,...
评分两个生活幸福却突患绝症而全身瘫痪的人,在病床上写就了两本畅销书。 托尼.朱特好歹是在他尚能口述的时候完成了作品,法国人鲍比则是靠左眼皮的眨动一个一个识别字母写下他四万字的遗作。没有高大上的坚强宣言,鲍比用眼皮“说”出的第一句话的确是“我想去死”。朱特则...
这本书跟我八字不合,怎么读都进不到脑子里去。。。
评分非常精彩—读的过程中又悲伤又愉快,每一句像是回忆,每一句又像是道别。读的过程中如同坐在火车之上,永不停歇的过程之中不知道是道别还是出发。那沉重却如空气一般的事物,最终随着生命融化进无数的记忆的终点里。
评分两年之内看了两次 希望每一年都会翻出来看一遍的书 高级知识分子的情怀
评分这本书跟我八字不合,怎么读都进不到脑子里去。。。
评分not able to appreciate most of it. Being a Jew himself, his views on Israel is rather refreshing and opened up a whole new dimension for me.
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