W G Sebald: 21 books

Book cover of A Place in the Country
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English.   This edition includes more than 40 pieces of art, all originally selected by W. G. Sebald. This...
Book cover of Campo Santo
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011

“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...
Book cover of The Emergence of Memory

The Emergence of Memory

Conversations with W.G. Sebald

by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

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...
Book cover of On the Natural History of Destruction
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003

W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001. On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald’s harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined “silences” of our time. In it,...
Book cover of Across the Land and the Water

Across the Land and the Water

Selected Poems, 1964-2001

by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012

“A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.”—Teju Cole, The New Yorker   German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges....
Book cover of Vertigo
by W. G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001

The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald—the acknowledged master of memory's...
Book cover of Three Book Sebald Set: The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo
by W. G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

The masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now in gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. All three novels are...
Book cover of After Nature
by W.G. Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011

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,...
Book cover of Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 5, 2013

Maestro dello stile avvolgente e coinvolgente, inventore di un amalgama inconfondibile fra testo e immagine, W.G. Sebald è stato l’unica apparizione di grande rilievo nella letteratura di lingua tedesca dopo Thomas Bernhard. Pochi mesi prima della sua tragica, recentissima scomparsa, aveva pubblicato...
Book cover of Secondo natura

Secondo natura

Un poema degli elementi

by W.G. Sebald
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2017

Piogge di fuoco divorante, mari tempestosi, ghiacci e rocce di un mondo vuoto di uomini, luci radianti, deserti combusti: con somma potenza di immagini, con il ritmo che il verso libero imprime a un linguaggio avvolgente, e in un costante intreccio di saperi (arte, scienze naturali, letteratura),...
Book cover of Storia naturale della distruzione
by W.G. Sebald
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2014

Per molti anni, anzi quasi fino a oggi, vi è stato in Germania un argomento tabù per eccellenza: la distruzione senza precedenti causata nella seconda guerra mondiale da oltre un milione di tonnellate di bombe, che piovvero su centotrentuno città tedesche provocando seicentomila morti fra i civili...
Book cover of Gli emigrati
by W.G. Sebald
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 5, 2013

Quattro personaggi intrecciano negli Emigrati la loro vita con quella dell’autore: Henry Selwyn, brillante chirurgo e uomo di mondo, ritiratosi in tarda età nella torre di una casa della campagna inglese dove Sebald affitta in gioventù un appartamento; Paul Bereyter, promeneur walseriano e maestro...
Book cover of Gli anelli di Saturno
by W.G. Sebald
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 12, 2012

"Pellegrinaggio in Inghilterra" recita il sottotitolo. E di un viaggio solitario si tratta, d'estate e per lo più a piedi, nel Suffolk, dove Sebald visse sino all'ultimo: in uno spazio delimitato da mare, colline e qualche città costiera, attraverso grandi proprietà terriere in decadenza,...
Book cover of Soggiorno in una casa di campagna

Soggiorno in una casa di campagna

Su Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser e altri

by W.G. Sebald
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 10, 2014

Nel 1966, in procinto di lasciare la Svizzera per Manchester, Sebald mette in valigia i libri di tre scrittori destinati a segnare per sempre la rotta dei suoi incessanti viaggi letterari. Per questo, più di trent’anni dopo, sente di dover rendere a Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel e Robert...
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