A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G.
Sebald 'The greatest writer of our time' Peter Carey 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 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 'Irresistible . . . an intimate anatomy of
the pathos, absurdity and perverse splendour of trying to find
patterns in the chaos of the world' Independent W . G. Sebald was
born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944 and died in December
2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg,
Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an
assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled
permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European
Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of
The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After
Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo,
Unrecounted and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the
Water. Jo Catling taught German for a number of years alongside W.
G. Sebald at the University of East Anglia, where she is currently
a senior lecturer in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative
Writing.
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