Campo Santo (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Campo Santo (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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â‚¬Å“W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligenceâ‚¬â€œhumane, 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.â‚¬Â
â‚¬â€œThe Washington Post Book World

This final collection of essays by W. G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his workâ‚¬â€œthe power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts. Some of these pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present, examining, among other things, the islandâ‚¬s formative effect on its most famous citizen, Napoleon. In others, Sebald examines how the works of Gnter Grass and Heinrich BÂ¶ll reveal â‚¬Å“the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional livesâ‚¬Â of postwar Germans; how Kafka echoes Sebaldâ‚¬s own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings; and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world.
Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, Campo Santo confirms Sebaldâ‚¬s status as one of the great modern writers who divined and expressed the invisible connections that determine our lives.
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780812972320
Model 0812972325
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2006-02-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812972320

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780812972320
Model	0812972325
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2006-02-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812972320

Campo Santo (Modern Library Paperbacks)

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