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About the Book

These are the mythical books that were burnt, torn, stolen, or simply disappeared, but which certainly existed. In this elegiac and gripping volume, Giorgio van Straten is by turns detective and spy, traveller and scholar, 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 ... Romano Bilenchi The Avenue Lord Byron Memoirs Ernest Hemingway Juvenilia Bruno Schulz The Messiah Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls (part II) Malcolm Lowry In Ballast to the White Sea Walter Benjamin What was in the Black Suitcase Sylvia Plath Double Exposure These are the lost books.

About the Author :
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 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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It's clear that Van Straten still searches for lost books, even as he recognises the futility of it. He likens the search to his childhood notions of the quest, to his longing to be 'the hero who will be able to solve the mystery' Small, stylish hardback... I read it all in a single, enchanted sitting Charming, curious little volume... van Straten winningly demonstrates how these books 'come back to life in us' Brilliant... a little masterpiece Engaging... instructing and entertaining... moving Delightful and absorbing... a little gem of a collection; recommended reading for any curious bibliophile In Search of Lost Books presents a private view of lost masterpieces, a particularly eloquent, lightly philosophical display of select, exceptional absences... a rewardingly, reassuringly old-fashioned quest Charming


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781782273721
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Sub Title: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes
  • ISBN-10: 1782273727
  • Publisher Date: 02 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 129 mm


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