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.
撰文:Evan R. Goldstein 翻译:陶小路 首发《东方历史评论》微信公号:ohistory [托尼·朱特:作为左翼人士到底意味着什么?] 原编者按:二十年多来,托尼·朱特是各种主流思想期刊上经常出现的名字,在英美世界的智识生活中,他是一个无法被绕过的人物。但这位英国历史学家20...
评分对抗时间的方式包括记忆与书写。 这是一本内容上并不厚重的传记(因为作者没人没有惊心动魄的往事),但是一本情感上粘稠带着悲伤情绪的传记(因为是作者生前的最后一本书,在写完序言的三个月之后就去世了)。 作者拥有冷静,理智,严密的思维。在脑海中搭建建筑物的文学创...
评分在托尼•朱特(Tony Judt)一系列学术著作中,《记忆小屋》显得格外与众不同。这本小书介于回忆录与自传之间,但是更倾向于散文般精致的叙事。如果从精神质地上考量这本小书的话,也唯有纳博科夫式的回忆可堪相比,这是一本二十世纪著名历史学家的《说吧,记忆》。 朱特与纳...
评分知识分子从来都害怕失去表达的能力,如同他们害怕面对一个被禁锢的世界,害怕一个停滞或倒退的社会出现。作为研究战后欧洲历史最重要的学者,托尼朱特亦复如此。他与物理学家霍金患有同样的疾病(肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症)。他将此自喻为“越来越彻底的、无法被假释的监禁...
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.
评分百般无赖的冬天在纽约圣马可书店捧读完,战后英伦社会改革历历在目。
评分Tony Judt's writing is timeless.
评分在没有读过Judt的历史著作前先读了这本类似回忆录的散文集,感受到了一位untypical Jew、meritocrat、deeply love train traveling、a bit nostalgic of old traditions的English gentleman的情怀,他也曾在年轻时去过以色列Kibbutz,也曾在二战后somehow buy communism,但最终还是成为了一个true cosmopolitan。最喜欢其中三篇,one is about him learning Czech,another is about the identity in globalization, the last is about the integrity of words.
评分Tony Judt's writing is timeless.
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