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Campo Santo (Paperback)
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Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald When W.G.
Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo
Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them
previously published in book form - which provide a powerful
insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces
pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and
present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Kafka,
Nabokov, and Gunter Grass, showing both how literature can provide
restitution for the injustices of the world and how such literature
came to have so great an influence on him. Campo Santo is a fitting
memorial to W.G. Sebald, who himself studied the shifting nature of
memory and time with such sensitivity. 'A precious addition to the
canon' Independent 'Will come to be seen as indispensable to an
understanding of his work' Sunday Times 'Full of a sense of
liberation and lightness ... these [pieces] abound in energy and
work the authentic Sebaldian magic' Literary Review 'We have become
suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in
Sebald's case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is,
the real thing' John Banville, Guardian 'Sebald was probably the
greatest intellect and voice of the late twentieth century' Anthony
Beevor, The Times 'A writer whose explorations of time and memory
make him arguably the closest author modern European letters has to
rival Borges' Sunday Times 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, For Years Now and A Place
in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called
Across the Land and the Water.
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