After Nature

Sebald, W. G. Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger

ISBN 10: 0375504850 / ISBN 13: 9780375504853

Published by Random House, 2002

About this Item

First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 116 pages. Sebald's first literary work. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation. The author was killed in an automobile accident in December 2001. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: After Nature
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375504850
• ISBN 13: 9780375504853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
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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.

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.