G. Sebald's marvelous first novel — is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, venice, verona, beset by nervous ailments, Riva, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past.
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The Emigrants New Directions Paperbook Book 853
Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem. A masterwork of W. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, an elementary-school teacher, a doctor, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile.
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The Rings of Saturn
". A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator who both is and is not sebald are lonely eccentrics, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson, the massive bombings of WWII, Joseph Conrad, wooded hills, " the natural history of the herring, recession-hit seaside towns, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, and the silk industry in Norwich.
The book is like a dream you want to last forever" roberta silman, the New York Times Book Review, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter MendelsundThe Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England.
On the Natural History of Destruction
On the natural History of Destruction is W. G. But rather than record the crises about them, writers sought to retrospectively justify their actions under the Nazis. There are moments of black humour and, throughout, the unmatched sensitivity of Sebald’s intelligence. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001.
Sebald’s harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined “silences” of our time. They include his childhood recollections of the war that spurred his horror at the collective amnesia around him. For sebald, this is an example of deliberate cultural amnesia; his analysis of its effects in and outside Germany has already provoked angry and painful debate.
Sebald’s incomparable novels are rooted in meticulous observation; his essays are novelistic. This book is a vital study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics. W.
After Nature
From the efforts of each, in places beautiful and comforting, “an order arises, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance. The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author’s position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time.
Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world.
A Place in the Country Modern Library Classics
Sebald. This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. G. Writer gottfried keller, best known for his 1850 novel Green Henry, is praised for his prescient insights into a Germany where “the gap between self-interest and the common good was growing ever wider.
Sebald compassionately re-creates the ordeals of eduard mörike, and robert walser, and fainting spells in an increasingly shallow society, the nineteenth-century German poet beset by mood swings, depression, the institutionalized author whose nearly indecipherable scrawls seemed an attempt to “duck down below the level of language and obliterate himself” and whose physical appearance and year of death mirrored those of Sebald’s grandfather.
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Austerlitz
Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” The New York Review of Books, is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to england on a kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him.
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The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald
Contributors include carole angier, charles simic, Michael Hofmann, Joseph Cuomo, Arthur Lubow, Ruth Franklin, Michael Silverblatt, Tim Parks, and Eleanor Wachtel. When german author W. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate.
G. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, memory, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, and dislocation.
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
Starting with the vikings’ kennings and beowulf and ending with Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, the book traverses a landscape of ‘precursors, and genres of expression, ’cross-cultural borrowings, all connected by Borges into a vast interpretive web. Borges’s lectures — delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition — bring the canon to remarkably vivid life.
This is the most surprising and useful of Borges’s works to have appeared posthumously. Borges takes us on a startling, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, idiosyncratic, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Now translated into english for the first time, these lectures are accompanied by extensive and informative notes by the Borges scholars Martín Arias and Martín Hadis.
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The Melancholy of Resistance New Directions Paperbook
And yet, miraculously, in the words of The Guardian, the novel, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds. ". Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, cosmology, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs.
From the winner of the 2015 man booker international PrizeA powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. Eszter, who is the tender center of the book, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, the only pure and noble soul to be found.
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Campo Santo Modern Library Paperbacks
Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, Campo Santo confirms Sebald’s status as one of the great modern writers who divined and expressed the invisible connections that determine our lives. Some of these pieces pay tribute to the mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present, the island’s formative effect on its most famous citizen, among other things, examining, Napoleon.
G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work–the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts. Readers will be rewarded with unexpected illuminations. The washington post Book WorldThis final collection of essays by W.
Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence–humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy.