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The Memory Chalet (2010)

by Tony Judt(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1594202893 (ISBN13: 9781594202896)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: The Memory Chalet / Tony Judt. Very well-written memoir written by a brilliant British scholar, who is dying of ALS. Inspiring for me that he continued to think, organize, and communicate until weeks before his death. His chapters on Jewish identity and those on political correctness / sexual politics are worth a second read (I will keep this book for longer, contrary to my current habit of once read donated or recycled. Very much a book about him: no other person is developed to a great degree.
review 2: I finished Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet, a collection of essays and memories, almost a memoir, as the 20th century historian's body slowly stopped functioning due to ALS. He seems a likable enough guy, perhaps a little casual with the women, but interest... moreed in interesting things. Too liberal for the conservatives, too pragmatic and traditional for the radicals. Good company as he talked of his youth, his education (and the decay his generation created in British universities), of his Jewishness (not at all religiousness), his interest in the continent, initially France and eventually Eastern Europe, and the United States. less

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