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W.G. Sebald (Sebald, W.G. / Sebald, W. G.)
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After NatureISBN 0141003367 (0-14-100336-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Nature'Book summary:After Nature, W. G. Sebalds first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankinds place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance. The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages.
After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the authors position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time.
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- After Nature: ISBN 0375756582 (0-375-75658-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc - After Nature: ISBN 0676975542 (0-676-97554-2)
Softcover, Knopf Canada - After Nature: ISBN 0241141370 (0-241-14137-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - After Nature: ISBN 0375504850 (0-375-50485-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - After Nature: ISBN 0141003367 (0-14-100336-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
- After Nature: ISBN 0375756582 (0-375-75658-2)
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AusterlitzISBN 0140297995 (0-14-029799-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Austerlitz'Book summary:In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories and explores what happened to him half a century ago. [via]
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- Austerlitz: ISBN 0375756566 (0-375-75656-6)
Softcover, Modern Library - Austerlitz: ISBN 0676974341 (0-676-97434-1)
Softcover, Knopf Canada - Austerlitz: ISBN 0241141257 (0-241-14125-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Austerlitz: ISBN 0375504834 (0-375-50483-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Austerlitz: ISBN 0676974333 (0-676-97433-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada - Austerlitz: ISBN 0140297995 (0-14-029799-5)
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- Austerlitz: ISBN 0375756566 (0-375-75656-6)
Campo SantoISBN 0141017864 (0-14-101786-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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On the Natural History of DestructionISBN 0375756574 (0-375-75657-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Natural History of Destruction'Book summary:W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001.
On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebalds harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined silences of our time. In it, the acclaimed novelist examines the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment, and the reasons for the astonishing absence of this unprecedented trauma from German history and culture.
This void in history is in part a repression of things -- such as the death by fire of the city of Hamburg at the hands of the RAF -- too terrible to bear. But rather than record the crises about them, writers sought to retrospectively justify their actions under the Nazis. For Sebald, this is an example of deliberate cultural amnesia; his analysis of its effects in and outside Germany has already provoked angry and painful debate.
Sebalds incomparable novels are rooted in meticulous observation; his essays are novelistic. They include his childhood recollections of the war that spurred his horror at the collective amnesia around him. There are moments of black humour and, throughout, the unmatched sensitivity of Sebalds intelligence. This book is a vital study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics. [via]More editions of On the Natural History of Destruction:
- On the Natural History of Destruction: ISBN 0676975305 (0-676-97530-5)
Softcover, Knopf Canada - On the Natural History of Destruction: ISBN 0140298002 (0-14-029800-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - On the Natural History of Destruction: ISBN 0241141265 (0-241-14126-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - On the Natural History of Destruction: ISBN 0375504842 (0-375-50484-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - On the Natural History of Destruction: ISBN 0676975291 (0-676-97529-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada - On the Natural History of Destruction: ISBN 0375756574 (0-375-75657-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- On the Natural History of Destruction: ISBN 0676975305 (0-676-97530-5)
Short Lives for Years Now Poems by W. G. SebaldISBN 0571208010 (0-571-20801-0)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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UnrecountedISBN 0141018380 (0-14-101838-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unrecounted'Book summary: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 from time passing, of our eyes bearing witness, and of memory and remembrance. And to quote the critic Andrea Kohler: this poem of gazes has become a memorial, a bequeathal. If Sebald never tired of tracing the destinations of his soul-mates among writers, outsiders and emigrants in his sentences endlessly meandering through space and time, this legacy of his has the density of epitaphs.' [via]
Young AusterlitzISBN 0141022809 (0-14-102280-9)
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