'You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all...Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.' - Luis Bunuel, "Memoirs". 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.' - Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass".This intriguing anthology introduces us to arguments and experiences, evocative moments and hard scientific debate on the ...
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'You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all...Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.' - Luis Bunuel, "Memoirs". 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.' - Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass".This intriguing anthology introduces us to arguments and experiences, evocative moments and hard scientific debate on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives and our history together. With an introduction by A.S. Byatt, the book is arranged in themed sections, and includes specially commissioned essays by writers with expertise in different fields - from 'Memory and Evolution' by Patrick Bateson to 'Memory and Forgetting' by the biographer Richard Holmes, and an account of the chemistry of the brain, by Steven Rose. The fascinating extracts move through the ages from Plato and Aristotle to Montaigne and Shakespeare, Voltaire and Hume, Wordsworth and Proust, Freud and Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, W.G. Sebald and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating and provocative and often profoundly moving, "Memory" is a book to treasure - and remember.
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Hardcover signed on title page by the author. Second impression. Fine in very good dust jacket with small stain to rear bottom corner of dust jacket. Some slight foxing to edges.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN: 9780701177379.
