After nature

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Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, this book, in each of its three distinct parts, gives centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W G Sebald himself.

After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz

'The greatest writer of our time' Peter Carey

After Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey.

In this long prose poem, Sebald introduces many of the themes that he explores in his subsequent books. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, each of the three distinct parts of After Nature give centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W.G. Sebald himself.

'A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvellously warm, exciting and compassionate one' Andrew Motion

'A début of rare poetic grandeur' Irish Times

'Astonishing writing. A true poet at work' Evening Standard

'Graceful, allusive, serious, but also immensely readable' Sunday Telegraph

'When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm' Literary Review


W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

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Campo Santo

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A collection of essays by w g sebald which provide insight into the themes that came to dominate his life it also includes four pieces that pay tribute to corsica weaving elegiacally between past and present campo santo is a collection of essays by w g sebaldwhen w g sebald died tragically in Uiterlijk 9 december in huis .. MEER INFO

A Place in the Country

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When the author travelled to manchester in 1966 he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during his years in england in this book he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer from jean Uiterlijk 9 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Silent Catastrophes

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we have become suspicious rightly of claims for literary greatness but in sebald s case the claim was triumphantly justified he was he is the real thing john banville guardianfrom acclaimed critic novelist and academic w g sebald author of austerlitz and the rings of saturn a col Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, donderdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Uitvoering: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 juni 2003

Aantal pagina's: 128

Illustraties: Nee

Eerste Vertaler: Michael Hamburger

Hoofdauteur: W.G. Sebald

Tweede Auteur: W. G. Sebald

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 128 mm

Product hoogte: 8 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 119 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 11 mm

Verpakking lengte: 195 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 212 g

EAN: 9780141003368

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