Winfried Georg Sebald

A fictional account of a walking tour along England's coast provides the narrator with a rich source for reflection on the country's history

The Rings of Saturn

A first-person narrative describes a journey from Italy during Napoleon's invasion to a Bavarian village, drawing in the memories of notable persons such as Franz Kafka and Casanova.

Vertigo

Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destructionIn the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. Six hundred thousand civilians died, and three and a half million homes were destroyed. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his life and work, Sebald asks, how have so many writers allowed themselves to write it out of their experience and avoid articulating the horror? W.G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction sparked a wide-ranging debate in the German press.'Sebald makes exquisite art out of vile history' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'One of the most important writers of our time' A.S. Byatt, New Statesman 'Demands to be read for its grand emotional power ... it absorbs and horrifies and illuminates' Scotsman'Brilliant and disturbing' Antony Beevor, The TimesW . 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 1996 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, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.

With Essays on Alfred Andersch, Jean Améry and Peter Weiss

On the Natural History of Destruction

A biographical poetic triptych explores the lives of medieval German painter Matthias Grunewald, eighteenth-century explorer and naturalist Georg Stellar, and Sebald himself, as his describes his own haunting odyssey through twentieth-century Germany. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

After Nature

Four narratives weave history and fiction together as refugees from the Holocaust remember their experiences

The Emigrants

Shares the struggle of Jacques Austerlitz to uncover his identity as he follows the memory of his childhood back to the heart of war-torn Europe, to the place from which he emigrated as a young orphan in 1939.

Austerlitz. English

From the author of the critically-acclaimed Austerlitz and Across the Land and Water comes A Place in the Country, the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works.When W. G. Sebald, the prize-winning author of Austerlitz, travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Place in the Country, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiration - Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive, inimitable voice.A Place in the Country is a window into the mind of this much loved and much missed writer.Praise for W.G. Sebald:'A new kind of writing, combining fiction, memoir, travelogue, philosophy and much else besides . . . greatness in literature is still possible' John Banville, Irish Times'When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience' Literary Review'Is literary greatness still possible? One of the few answers available to English-Language readers is the work of W.G. Sebald' Susan SontagW.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany in 1944. 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 the author of Austerlitz; The Emmigrants, which won a series of major awards, including the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich Boll Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize.

On Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser and Others

A Place in the Country

A collection of nearly one hundred poems are centered around the poet's signature themes, including nature, history, wandering, and memory.

Selected Poems, 1964-2001

Across the Land and the Water

A final compilation of essays by the award-winning late author of Austerlitz explores the themes of the power of memory and personal history, the links between images in the arts and life, and the existence of ghosts in different places and artifacts. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Campo Santo [electronic resource]

Jacques Austerlitz, an orphan refugee child who arrived in London in 1939 and was raised by a Methodist minister, struggles to understand who he is as he moves through his life. 35,000 first printing.

Austerlitz

Unrecounted is a book of poems and images from one of the most admired European writers, W.G. Sebald, and his friend and collaborator, the German artist Jan Peter Tripp. For a number of years until Sebald's death in 2001, the two exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the startlingly original result of this long artistic friendship - a creative dialogue inspired by shared concerns. Tripp's lithographs, which portray pairs of eyes - among them those of Beckett, Borges, Proust - combine with W.G. Sebald's words in Unrecounted to speak of moments salvaged from time passing, of our eyes bearing witness, and of memory and remembrance. 'Condenses Sebald's complex visual imagination to its poetic core' Scotland on Sunday 'Elegiac, enhancing ... Sebald will not be forgotten' Time Out 'A haunting testament to Sebald's singular and lasting vision' Observer 'The magic of W.G. Sebald's incandescent body of work continues to unfold, with this unexpected collaboration' Susan Sontag 'Anyone with a serious interest in fiction should read Sebald' Daily Telegraph W.G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and settled permanently in England in 1970, where he was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia until his death in 2001. He is the author of four works of fiction: The Emigrants, which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize, and the Joseph Breitbach Prize; The Rings of Saturn; Vertigo; and Austerlitz, which was awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Alongside this stand books of poetry For Years Now, After Nature, Unrecounted, and Across the Land and the Water, and the non-fiction books On the Natural History of Destruction and Campo Santo. Jan Peter Tripp was born in 1945 and lives and works in Alsace.

33 Texts and 33 Etchings

Unrecounted

El escritor emprende un viaje a pie por el condado de Suffolk, en la costa este de Inglaterra, para llenar el vacío que se ha apoderado de su interior al haber concluido un trabajo importante A la vista de paisajes solitarios y pequeñas poblaciones costeras se topa con vestigios de un pasado que le remite a la totalidad del mundo, enmarcado en multitud de épocas, espacios y personajes diferentes Sebald funde magistralmente la autobiografía con la descripción y redacción de historia e historias, anécdotas, conjeturas y recuerdos a caballo entre la realidad y la ficción, en los que la civilización y la naturaleza se muestran en sus variedades más amplias

Una peregrinación inglesa

Los anillos de Saturno

Sir Thomas Browne

A classic 17th-century essay first looks at the idea of burial throughout human history, then explores man's struggles with mortality and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in the living world. Original.

Urn Burial

Die Ausgewanderten

De auteur ontmoet op het station van Antwerpen toevallig een joodse man die op zoek is naar zijn in de oorlog verloren gegane identiteit.

Austerlitz / druk 3

Аустерлиц

O professor Jacques Austerlitz explora a estação ferroviária de Liverpool Street, em Londres, coletando material para suas pesquisas, quando é subitamente tomado por uma visão retrospectiva que talvez o ajude a explicar, não tanto a "arquitetura da era capitalista", seu campo de estudos, mas sim o sentimento incômodo de ter vivido sempre uma vida alheia. A Partir dessa experiência, suas andanças pelas ilhas britânicas e pelo continente europeu, sua mania fotográfica e sua memória minuciosa ganham ímpeto bem mais que acadêmico: Austerlitz passa a reconstruir a própria história, descobrir a própria biografia. Para cumprir essa tarefa - ou esse destino - o herói do romance terá de ir e vir entre várias décadas, muitos países e os cenários mais díspares: um lar protestante no interior de Gales, um internato britânico, uma biblioteca em Paris, fortificações, palácios, campos de concentração, monumentos e banheiros públicos. No fim dessa viagem - que converterá a biografia mais íntima do professor inglês em cifra da história européia no século XX -, está o momento em que tudo começou, com outros nomes, em outra língua, numa outra estação ferroviária, quando os horrores da Segunda Guerra e do Holocausto começavam a se anunciar. Explorando temas como a perda, o desolamento e a inquietude mental, e misturando gêneros como as memórias, a história e a literatura de viagem, a prosa de Sebald foi imediatamente saudada no mundo todo por desafiar os limites da ficção. COmo em todos os seus romances, o texto de Austerlitzé também costurado por uma série de fotografias quase enigmáticas: objetos, cartões-postais e lugares não identificados não são meras ilustrações da história - através delas, o autor parece sugerir algo mais. "Sua narrativa sobre a odisséia de um homem durante os anos negros da história européia é uma das mais comoventes e verdadeiras do pós-guerra. SEbald é o Joyce do século XXI." - The Times "Será ainda possível a grandeza literária? [...] Uma das poucas respostas disponíveis é a obra de W. G. SEbald." - Susan Sontag "Uma reflexão extraordinária sobre o tempo e a perda. UM jeito novo de escrever, que combina ficção, memória, relato de viagem, filosofia e muito mais [...] A grandeza ainda é possível na literatura..." - John Banville, Irish Times

roman

En este poema en prosa, Sebald hace del amor y del temor a la Naturaleza su tema decisivo - una obra maestra sobre la vida de tres hombres que sintieron dolorosamente el conflicto entre Hombre y Naturaleza. El primer panel está dedicado a Matthias Grünewald, pintor de santos, crucifixiones, eclipses y catástrofes, quien vivió los horrores de un tiempo en que se perseguía ya a los judíos y se sacaban los ojos a los vencidos en las continuas guerras. El segundo es la vida de un botánico, G. W. Steller, que se une a una malhadada expedición rusa de Vitus Behring para descubrir la ruta de Alaska. En el último relato, un viaje a la Pinacoteca de Munich con el único fin de contemplar el cuadro de Altdorfer La batalla de Alejandro, sirve a Sebald para reflexionar sobre la condición humana y la Historia.

poema rudimentario

Del natural

Vier geschiedenissen van ontheemde, met name joodse emigranten in Duitsland.

Winfried Georg Sebald

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