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Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald (tr Anthea Bell)
Category: Fiction
At the heart of this volume are four lyrical and meditative prose fragments, from a great, still incomplete work he was planning, centring on the island of Corsica. The title piece was discovered after his death. Literary essays on those literary greats Sebald felt an affinity with complete the volum ...Show more
Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald
Category: Languages and Reference
Sebald's final collection of essays provides a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Gunter Grass, Bruce Chatwin and Kafka, showing both how lite ...Show more
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald (formerly Professor of European Literature, University of East Anglia)
Category: History
The darkest aspects of the final act of destruction, as experienced by the great majority of the German population, remained under a kind of taboo like a shameful family secret, a secret that perhaps could not even be privately acknowledged
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald
Category: Fiction
In the last years of World War II, the Allies dropped a million bombs on Germany. Yet the German people have been silent about the resulting devestation and loss of life, failing to recognise the terrible shadow that destruction from the air cast over their land. Here W.G. Sebald asks why it is we turn ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Category: Fiction
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sen ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
Category: Fiction
"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silk ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Category: Fiction
The Rings of Saturn chronicles a tour across epochs as well as the East Anglian countryside. On his way, the narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions, and links them to the natural history of the herring, and a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem.
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Category: Fiction
The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jeru ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald; Michael Hulse (Translator)
Category: Fiction
'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The Times What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present- of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fi ...Show more
Three Book Sebald Set: The Emigrants, the Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
Category: Fiction
New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. All three novels are distinguished by their translations, every line of which Sebald himself made pitch-perfect, slaving to carry ...Show more
Unrecounted : 33 texts and 33 etchings by W.G. Sebald
Category: Poetry
For a number of years until his death in 2001, W. G. Sebald and the German artist Jan Peter Tripp exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the result of this long artistic friendship - a creative dialogue inspired by shared concerns. Sebald's words and Tripp's images speak of moments salvaged fro ...Show more