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A Place in the Country

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Place in the Country
Authors and Contributors      By (author) W. G. Sebald
Translated by Jo Catling
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary studies - general
Travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9780141037011
ClassificationsDewey:809
Audience
General
Illustrations With 4x 4pg. full-colour insets and b/w integrated photographs throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 6 March 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Fusing biography and essay, A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Place in the Country, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiration - Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive, inimitable voice. A Place in the Country is a window into the mind of this much loved and much missed writer.

Author Biography

W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo and Silent Catastrophes among other publications.

Reviews

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 -- Joanna Kavenna * Spectator *