The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W. G. Sebald - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1583227857 ISBN 13: 9781583227855

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2008

Synopsis

When German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of 57, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer it was only just beginning to appreciate. Through pieces culled from essays, interviews and reviews, award-winning translator Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the late Sebald, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory and dislocation in post-Nazi Europe. With a host of contributors and a cogent account of almost all of Sebald's books, this is a testament to a newly-recognised master.

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About the Authors

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ is the author of fourteen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoir, Ruined by Reading. Her first novel, Rough Strife (1981), was shortlisted for a National Book Award and a PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award while her Leaving Brooklyn (1989) was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction. She won the 1991 PEN Renato Pogglioli Award for her translation from the Italian of Smoke Over Birkenau, by Liana Millu. Schwartz is a native and current New Yorker.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz: Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of fourteen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoir, Ruined by Reading. Her novel Leaving Brooklyn (1989) was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction. Schwartz is a native and current New Yorker. Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. Since 1967 he has published twenty books of his poetry, seven books of essays, a memoir, and numerous poetry translations. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Prize, and the MacArthur Fellowship. He is the poetry editor of The Paris Review. Ruth Franklin has been an editor at The New Republic since 1999. Her criticism also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, Slate, and other publications. She is currently at work on a book about literature and the Holocaust.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583227857
• ISBN 13: 9781583227855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Lynne Sharon Schwartz