After Nature by Wg Sebald

After Nature by Wg Sebald

After Nature, W. G. Sebald's first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind's place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance. The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Gr newald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages.

After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author's position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time.

From the Hardcover edition.

Sebald was born in 1944 in Wertach im Allgau, Germany. In Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester, he studied German language and literature. He spent thirty years as a professor of European literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and was the founding director of the British Centre for Literary Translation from 1989 to 1994. The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz, which he previously translated, have won numerous international honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literary Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. In December of 2001, he passed away. This is an excerpt from the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780375756580
ISBN 10	0375756582
Title	After Nature
Author	Wg Sebald
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-07-01
Number of pages	128
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