After Nature - Hardcover

Sebald, Winfried Georg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375504850 ISBN 13: 9780375504853

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

A biographical poetic triptych explores the lives of medieval German painter Matthias Grunewald, eighteenth-century explorer and naturalist Georg Stellar, and Sebald himself, as his describes his own haunting odyssey through twentieth-century Germany. 10,000 first printing.

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Review:

"His work survives as a reminder not only of the heroism and nobility of literature but also of the human spirit." -- Sunday Times

"Like all great writers, he has the innate ability to blend the personal with the historical, the individual with the universal." -- Sunday Times

"allusive, dense, serious, but also immensely readable." -- Sunday Telegraph

"those who already love Sebald’s work will find this deeply engaging." -- Daily Telegraph

"you are immediately, unmistakeably in Sebald country ...it is also clear that you are in the company of a quiet genius." -- Sunday Times

About the Author:

W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His previously translated books—The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375504850
• ISBN 13: 9780375504853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 116