Written at the height of his career, A Place in the Country is W.G. Sebald's lyrical homage to six writers and artists who greatly influenced him in his life and work.
W. G. Sebald (Author)
W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg u, Germany, in 1944 and
died in December 2001. 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 is the
author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz,
After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted,
Campo Santo, A Place in the Country and a selection of poetry,
Across the Land and the Water.
Jo Catling (Translator)
Jo Catling taught German and European literature at the University
of East Anglia where she worked closely with W G Sebald from 1993
until his death. Translator of Sebalds A Place in the Country, she
is editor (with Richard Hibbitt) of Saturn's Moons- W G Sebald - A
Handbook (Legenda, 2011) and has published widely on Sebald and on
Rainer Maria Rilke.
A fascinating volume that confirms Sebald as one of Europe's most
mysterious and best-loved literary imaginations
*Evening Standard*
Sebald was in possession of the uncanny ability to make his own
intellectual obsessions, immediately, compulsively his reader's
*Observer*
Shows a writer at his most inquisitive, gazing deeply under the
surface of things
*Financial Times*
Irresistible . . . an intimate anatomy of the pathos, absurdity and
perverse splendour of trying to find patterns in the chaos of the
world
*Independent*
Erudite, truthful, moving
*The Times*
A beautiful book . . . about the crazy quest for meaning, and how
we persist with it despite the shadows that slide towards us
*Spectator*
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