The Emergence of Memory (Paperback)

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

ISBN 10: 1583229159 / ISBN 13: 9781583229156

Editore: Seven Stories Press,U.S., New York, 2010

Paperback. When German author Sebald died in a car accident at the age of 57, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre they were only just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with, and essays on, Sebald, Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the late author who has been praised for his unflinching explorations of modern history, dislocation and the role of memory. Includes essays from Charles Simic, Ruth Franklin, Michael Silverblatt and many others. A portrait in conversations with one of the towering literary figures of our times. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781583229156

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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation.
With contributions from poet, essayist, and translator Charles Simic, New Republic editor Ruth Franklin, Bookworm radio host Michael Silverblatt, and more, The Emergence of Memory offers Sebald’s own voice in interviews between 1997 up to a month before his death in 2001. Also included are cogent accounts of almost all of Sebald’s books, thematically linked to events in the contributors’ own lives.
Contributors include Carole Angier, Joseph Cuomo, Ruth Franklin, Michael Hofmann, Arthur Lubow, Tim Parks, Michael Silverblatt, Charles Simic, and Eleanor Wachtel.

Informazioni sull'autore: LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ is the author of fourteen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoir, Ruined by Reading. Her first novel, Rough Strife (1981), was shortlisted for a National Book Award and a PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award while her Leaving Brooklyn (1989) was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction. She won the 1991 PEN Renato Pogglioli Award for her translation from the Italian of Smoke Over Birkenau, by Liana Millu. Schwartz is a native and current New Yorker.

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Titolo: The Emergence of Memory (Paperback)
Casa editrice: Seven Stories Press,U.S., New York
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new