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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, Guardian
From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him - appearing for the first time in English
As a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighbouring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation by Germany, meant that concepts such as ‘home/land’, ‘borderland’ and ‘exile’ occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebald’s own.
Through a series of remarkable close readings of texts by Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth and more, Sebald charts both the pathologies which so often drove their work and the seismic historical forces which shaped them. This sequence of essays will be a revelation to Sebald’s English-language readers, tracing as they do so many of the themes which animate his own literary writings, to which these essays form a kind of prelude.
'A writer whose life and work has become a wonderful vindication of literary culture in all its subtle and entrancing complexity' Guardian
‘Sebald was probably the greatest intellect and voice of the late twentieth century’ Antony Beevor, The Times
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Taal: en
Uitvoering: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 januari 2025
Aantal pagina's: 240
Illustraties: Nee
Eerste Vertaler: Jo Catling
Hoofdauteur: W. G. Sebald
Hoofduitgeverij: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Editie: 1
Product breedte: 142 mm
Product hoogte: 45 mm
Product lengte: 223 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 142 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 45 mm
Verpakking lengte: 223 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 642 g
EAN: 9780241144190