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Campo Santo (Paperback, Modern Library trade pbk. ed) Loot Price: R550
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Campo Santo (Paperback, Modern Library trade pbk. ed): W. G. Sebald

Campo Santo (Paperback, Modern Library trade pbk. ed)

W. G. Sebald; Translated by Anthea Bell

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In this final collection of sixteen essays by W. G. Sebald, one of the most elegant and incisive authors of our time, all of his trademark themes are contained-the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts.
Four pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. In "A Little Excursion to Ajaccio," Sebald visits the birthplace of Napoleon and muses on the hints in his childhood home of a great man's future. Inspired by an Italian cemetery, "Campo Santo" is a reverie on death, ranging from the ambiguity of inscriptions to the size of and adornment of gravestones to the blood-soaked legend of Saint Julien.
Sebald also examines how the works of Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boll reveal "the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives" of postwar Germans, how Kafka echoes Sebald'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 Sebald's place beside Proust and Nabokov, great writers who perceive the invisible connections that determine our lives.

"From the Hardcover edition.

General

Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2006
First published: May 2006
Authors: W. G. Sebald
Translators: Anthea Bell
Dimensions: 206 x 134 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 219
Edition: Modern Library trade pbk. ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7232-0
Languages: English
Subtitles: German
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel & holiday guides > General
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LSN: 0-8129-7232-5
Barcode: 9780812972320

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