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Silent Catastrophes

By Sebald, W. G.

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Silent Catastrophes

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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
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
544
Release Date:
2025-01-23
Publication Date:
2025-01-23
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241144191
ISBN13:
9780241144190
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[email protected]
Weight:
644 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
48 cm
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