Memory
  • Published: 22 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781448162659
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
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Memory

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22 Oct 2018
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2 Mar 2009
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A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all, with analyses of memory (and forgetting) ranging from childhood recollections to the latest neuroscience, Plato to Freud, medieval poets to London taxi drivers.

This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and 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.

Complementing the essays are a rich selection of extracts from writers and thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Proust, Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating, provocative, funny or profoundly moving, Memory is a book to treasure - and remember.
  • Published: 22 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781448162659
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432
Categories:

About the authors

Harriet Harvey Wood

Harriet Harvey Wood is the former Head of Literature at the British Council and AS Byatt's is pre-eminent as a novelist and critic: her most recent novel is A Whistling Woman.

A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

portrait photo of A S Byatt