This novel, which has secured W. G. Sebald a reputation as one of the most original literary figures of his time, combines historical fact with fiction as the narrator, who has recently suffered a mysterious and paralyzing breakdown, travels backward in time while he wanders through Suffolk, England. It includes photographs of people and places ...
The four long narratives in this book appear at first to be plain accounts of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester. But, gradually, the book emerges into one evocation of the experience of exile, the loss of homeland.
The narrator of Sebald's fourth novel meets Jacques Austerlitz in a railroad station, and from there their friendship continues, revolving around a series of conversations, ostensibly about architecture but soon expanding to include the details of Austerlitz's life. The narrator learns that he was separated from his true parents at the age of 5, ...
Sebald's first (and autobiographical) novel is about a disturbed man who is obsessed with the literary giants of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
W. G. Sebald writes eloquently about Germany in the aftermath of World War II, particularly the strange reluctance of Germans to talk about the extensive bombing of their country by the Allies. He also discusses the work of German writers who have written on the subject, or avoided it--particularly Alfred Andersch and Jean Améry. Sebald has been ...
The last writings of W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) are collected here. While it is infinitely sad to think that there will be no more, this volume is a treasure of Sebaldian meditations on his usual eclectic variety of subjects, including Nabokov, Kafka, Günter Grass, depictions in literature of Kaspar Hauser the wild child, and Sebald's own childhood ...
This posthumous book of what he called "micro-poems" by W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is accompanied by 33 lithographs, or "eye-landscapes" (including portraits--but only the eyes--of Sebald, his daughter, and their dog), by Jan Peter Tripp, a childhood friend of Sebald. The volume also includes an introduction by Michael Hamburger, the translator; ...
W. G. Sebald's posthumously published book is actually his first, published in German in 1988. Difficult to categorize, it most resembles a prose poem, and is composed of three sections. The first tells the story of Mathias Grünewald, a 16th-century painter. This is followed by the tale of a journey to the Arctic by the 18th-century explorer Georg ...
"The novelist and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz has carefully rendered these subtle currents of belief and sensibility, moving always beneath an airy conversational style, in dexterous prose."-Virginia Quarterly Review on A Place to Live and other selected essays by Natalia Ginzburg When German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the ...
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780811215961ISBN:0811215962
Description: New. W.G. Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp were friends from their schooldays. Unrecounted combines 33 of what W.G. Sebald called his "micro-poems"--miniatures as unclassifiable as all his works--with 33 lithographs by the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp. read more
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