Austerlitz - Brossura

Sebald, Winfried Georg

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375756566 ISBN 13: 9780375756566

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2002

Riassunto

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. Winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione

“A remarkable accomplishment.” —Los Angeles Times

“Sebald stands with Primo Levi as the prime speaker of the Holocaust and, with him, the prime contradiction of Adorno’s dictum that after it, there can be no art.” —Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review

“Sebald is a rare and elusive species . . . but still, he is an easy read, just as Kafka is. . . . He is an addiction, and once buttonholed by his books, you have neither the wish nor the will to tear yourself away.” —Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

“Is literary greatness still possible? What would a noble literary enterprise look like? One of the few answers available to English-speaking readers is the work of W. G. Sebald.” —Susan Sontag

L'autore

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 previously translated books—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.
From the Hardcover edition.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375756566
• ISBN 13: 9780375756566
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 298