W. G. Sebald: Silent Catastrophes | Buch

Cover: 9780241144190 | Silent Catastrophes | Essays in Austrian Literature | W. G. Sebald

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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'A writer whose life and work has become a wonderful vindication of literary culture in all its subtle and entrancing complexity' Guardian Silent Catastrophes brings together for the first time in English the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: The Description of Misfortune and Strange Homeland, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991. 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. 'One of the most important writers of our time' A. S. Byatt

Über den Autor

W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo, A Place in the Country and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the Water.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	XXXII 512 S.
ISBN-13:	9780241144190
ISBN-10:	0241144191
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Deutsch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sebald, W. G.
Übersetzung:	Catling, Jo
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Hamish Hamilton
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	222 x 145 x 48 mm
Von/Mit:	W. G. Sebald
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.01.2025
Gewicht:	0,644 kg

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