In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes by Giorgio van Straten, Translated by Simon Carnell Review (Gifted)
Hello
readers,
Thank
you NetGalley for the chance to read this eBook for free and giving me the
chance to give an honest review this book The last two books I have read have
been completely out of my normal book “comfort” zone so to speak and I have
surprised myself by enjoying them more that I thought I would.
Sometimes
it’s nice for a change I think the nice weather has helping. So on to the
review... I enjoyed this book it was an engaging and eye-opening book about
other books, a collection of classics works that can no longer be read, for
they no longer exist.
The
mythical books that Giorgio van Straten is trying to find by turning detective,
traveller and researcher, as he examines clues, leads and interviews experts to
discover the stories of these eight-lost works, and their authors. His pursuit
takes him around the world, and across decades, to discover unforeseen and
unexpected connections.
THE
LOST BOOKS
- 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
The
works having been burnt, dismissed, banned, stolen, accidentally or
deliberately damaged, in natural or political disasters; and some of the books
have even been read by a few people before vanishing into thin air. The history
of these eight books is informative and entertaining, giving a moving insight
into the daily pressures and irresponsibility’s of writing, concerns for the
reputation of the deceased author, bad luck, the failure to protect work in
time of war.
Let’s be honest and
really think, there must be thousands if not millions, of books that have been
written and then never made it to print or that have ended up getting lost
completely, including both fiction and nonfiction books that could be the
greatest works of recent history.
Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this eBook for free and giving me the chance to give an honest review this book The last two books I have read have been completely out of my normal book “comfort” zone so to speak and I have surprised myself by enjoying them more that I thought I would.
Sometimes it’s nice for a change I think the nice weather has helping. So on to the review... I enjoyed this book it was an engaging and eye-opening book about other books, a collection of classics works that can no longer be read, for they no longer exist.
The mythical books that Giorgio van Straten is trying to find by turning detective, traveller and researcher, as he examines clues, leads and interviews experts to discover the stories of these eight-lost works, and their authors. His pursuit takes him around the world, and across decades, to discover unforeseen and unexpected connections.
THE LOST BOOKS
- 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
The works having been burnt, dismissed, banned, stolen, accidentally or deliberately damaged, in natural or political disasters; and some of the books have even been read by a few people before vanishing into thin air. The history of these eight books is informative and entertaining, giving a moving insight into the daily pressures and irresponsibility’s of writing, concerns for the reputation of the deceased author, bad luck, the failure to protect work in time of war.
Let’s be honest and really think, there must be thousands if not millions, of books that have been written and then never made it to print or that have ended up getting lost completely, including both fiction and nonfiction books that could be the greatest works of recent history.
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