Campo Santo [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Sebald, Winfried Georg; Bell, Anthea

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0812972325 ISBN 13: 9780812972320

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In [Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning and self-revelation. . . . [Readers will] be rewarded with unexpected illuminations. --The Washington Post Book World

A writer whose work [belongs] on the high shelf alongside that of Kafka, Borges and Proust. --The New York Times Book Review

Far outdoing even the best of these pieces are three set in Corsica. Perhaps intended as part of a new work of imagination, they compel a startled delight, and they compel painful regret outrage even that Sebald is gone and unable to continue. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

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 novels–The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, andAusterlitz–have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, theLos Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001. His posthumous publications includeOn the Natural History of Destruction and After Nature.

Translator ANTHEA BELL won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Austerlitz. She lives in Cambridge, England.
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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0812972325
• ISBN 13: 9780812972320
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 221