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Campo Santo

by Winfried Georg Sebald

About this title: 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 in postwar Germany. An entire section, entitled "Prose" (as opposed to "Essays," the book's other section), is devoted to Sebald's musings on the island of Corsica.

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Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. An excellent hardcover copy, a library discard that seems to have received little or no use. The binding is solid and square. The text is clean and unmarked. The book's exterior and its duatjacket have been protected by an archival cover that looks almost new. -------------------------------------------------------This posthumous collection contains the surviving portions of an unfinished book about Corsica, along with essays ... read more

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by W.G. Sebald; Translator-Anthea Bell

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by Winfried Georg / Bell, Anthea Sebald

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Edition: Reprint Binding: Paperback Publisher: Random House Inc Date Published: 2006 ISBN-13: 9780812972320 ISBN: 0812972325

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by Sebald, Winfried Georg; Bell, Anthea

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goodreads rating 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Jan 11, 2008
By Mark, New York, NY

"I wasn't sure what to expect of this, as a collection of essays and other texts put together after Sebald's death, but it is excellent throughout. The four short pieces at the beginning of the book, all set on the island of Corsica, were apparently the beginnings of a full length novel that was put aside to finish Austerlitz. They are like a distillation of all that makes Sebald great: the solo amblings over loaded historical terrain, the strange coincidences, the scholarly digressions, the suggestion of a mind constantly on the verge of crisis, and thus productively unfettered.

The first story details Sebald's musings on the Bonaparte family, as he visits the small museums of Ajaccio. Pointing out the trecherous unpredictability of history, he questions the extent to which its study can really help us understand the forces that shape our lives. He relates the story of an amateur historian he once met who based his studies of Napoleon on the theory that the Emperor was colorblind, seeing the blood-stained battlefields of Europe in green, not red. "The more blood that flowed on the battlefield ... the greener Napoleon thought the grass was growing." Sebald concludes, in what could amount to a manifesto for his own work: "The most precise study of the past scarcely comes any closer to the unimaginable truth than, for instance ... this Belgian scholar..."

'Campo Santo', the second piece, is even better. After swimming far out to sea from an isolated beach on the island and feeling tempted to allow himself to drift on out to sea, he eventually turns back ("obeying the strange instinct that binds us to life") and scales the cliff again, ending up at an abandoned cemetery. What follows begins as an apparently straightforward historical discussion of the customs and superstitions surrounding death unique to the island, but gradually unfolds as a tour-de-force excavation of our impoverished contemporary funerary rites.

The 'essays' section of the book includes pieces on Kafka and Max Brod's visit to a brothel, poet Ernst Herbeck's hare lip, a meditation on the common mackerel, interspersed with typically free-ranging essays on authors and history that could easily be read as fragments from his novels, demonstrating again the truly original and essentially unclassifiable nature of his writing."

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goodreads rating 5 out of 5 5 out of 5
Sep 9, 2007
By Luxagraf, Athens, GA

"Sebald at his best: Death, destruction and memory obsessed over and exhumed in the light art, literature and nature, and, among other things, absurdity, paranoia and love."

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