W. G Sebald
2) After nature
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
One of Sebald's earliest works, this haunting and shockingly original triptych of three biographical prose poems enlarges readers capacity to understand their place in the natural world.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 853
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia whose sights and sounds conjure up images of Britain's imperial past. They range from the slave trade to the Battle of Britain. By the author of The Emigrants.
6) Campo Santo
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
These sixteen moving essays contain Sebald's trademark themes--the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the existence of ghosts in both places and artifacts. Four essays pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present on the Mediterranean isle. In "A Little Excursion to Ajaccio," Sebald visits the birthplace of Napoleon and muses on the hints of a great man's future in his...
8) Austerlitz
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left...
9) Vertigo
Author
Publisher
Published for J. Laughlin by New Directions Pub
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid the restless literary ghosts of Kafka, Stendhal, and Casanova. In four dizzying sections, Sebald, one of the most acclaimed European writers of our time, plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head" as Webster defines it.
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