Campo Santo - Couverture souple

Sebald, W.G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0812972325 ISBN 13 : 9780812972320

Editeur : Modern Library Inc, 2006

Synopsis

This final collection of essays by W. G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts. Some of these pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present, examining, among other things, the island s formative effect on its most famous citizen, Napoleon. In others, Sebald examines how the works of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll reveal the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives of postwar Germans; how Kafka echoes Sebald s own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings; and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world. Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, Campo Santo confirms Sebald s status as one of the great modern writers who divined and expressed the invisible connections that determine our lives. Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 novels 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. His posthumous publications include On the Natural History of Destruction and After Nature. Translator ANTHEA BELL won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Austerlitz. She lives in Cambridge, England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Modern Library Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812972325
• ISBN 13: 9780812972320
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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