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Winfried Georg Sebald, W. G. Sebald

On the Natural History of Destruction

Editura: Modern Library

Anul aparitiei: 2004

During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died--a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks, why does the subject occupy so little space in Germany's cultural memory? On the Natural History of Destruction probes deeply into this ominous silence.

Winfried Georg Sebald, W. G. Sebald

After Nature

Editura: Modern Library

Anul aparitiei: 2003

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, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance." The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages. After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author's position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time.

Winfried Georg Sebald

The Rings of Saturn

Editura: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Anul aparitiei: 1998

The Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics. Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson, the natural history of the herring, Borges, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, recession-hit seaside towns, Joseph Conrad, the once-thriving silk industry of Norwich, Swinburne, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the massive bombings of WWII. Mesmerized by the mutability of all things, the narrator catalogs the transmigration of whole worlds: On every new thing, there lies already the shadow of annihilation.

William Sebald (Author)

With MacArthur in Japan: A Personal History of the Occupation

Editura: W W NORTON & CO INC

Anul aparitiei: 1965

After serving as a Naval Japanese language officer in the twenties and as a practicing attorney in Kobe for nearly ten years, Sebald returned to Japan after the war as a member of the staff of the U.S. Political Advisor. In 1947 he was appointed Acting U.S. Political Advisor to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Forces.In this book, Ambassador Sebald explains the major problems and policy shifts with clarity and a fresh approach. For the first time we are told the complete story of his efforts as Chairman of the Allied Council for Japan to repatriate the 650,000 Japanese POW's held by the Soviets. The Korean War, as seen from Tokyo, also takes on a new dimension. Sebald examines the failures on all sides which led to MacArthur's quarrel with Truman. In a highly dramatic scene, Ambassador Sebald records his interview with the General on the day he was dismissed by the President.This is the story of the incredibly busy years of one of America's new-style diplomats. It is a contribution of lasting importance to history, thoroughly documented and eminently readable.Mr. Sebald's co-author, Russell Brines, served in Tokyo and Manila as a correspondent prior to the war and was interned ...

W. G. Sebald (Author)

Unrecounted

Editura: NEW DIRECTIONS

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his "micropoems"--miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works--with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp. The lithographs portray, with stunning precision, pairs of eyes--the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Maurice. Brief as haiku, the poems are epiphanic and anti-narrative. What the author calls "time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death" here find a small home. The art and poems do not explain one another, but rather engage in a kind of dialogue. "The longer I look at the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp," Sebald comments in his essay, "the better I understand that behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the metaphysical lining of reality, so to speak."

Winfried Georg Sebald (Author)

Campo Santo

Editura: MODERN LIB

Anul aparitiei: 2006

"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 and self-revelation. . . . [Readers will] be rewarded with unexpected illuminations."-The Washington Post Book World This final collection of essays by W. G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work-the 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 island's formative effect on its most famous citizen, Napoleon. In others, Sebald examines how the works of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll 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 ...

W. G. Sebald (Author)

Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001

Editura: MODERN LIB

Anul aparitiei: 2013

"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. Now comes the first major collection of this literary master's poems. Skillfully translated by Iain Galbraith, they range from pieces Sebald wrote as a student in the sixties to those completed right before his untimely death in 2001. In nearly one hundred poems--the majority published in English for the first time--Sebald explores his trademark themes, from nature and history, to wandering and wondering, to oblivion and memory. Soaring and searing, the poetry of W. G. Sebald is an indelible addition to his superb body of work, and this collection is bound to become a classic in its own right. "How fortunate we are to have this writer's startling imagination freshly on display once again, expressed in language honed to a perfect simplicity."--Billy Collins "A watershed volume . . . nothing less than transcendent."--"BookPage" " Sebald was] a defining writer of his era."--"The New ...

W. G. Sebald (Author)

Austerlitz

Editura: MODERN LIB

Anul aparitiei: 2011

This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.

Sebald (Author)

The Radical Stage: Theater in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s

Editura: BERG PUBL % BOOKS INTL

Anul aparitiei: 1992

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Alexander Sebald (Author)

Kaninchen Knabberzahn Und Peppo Pfotenwuff

Editura: BOOKS ON DEMAND

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Auf dem Feld vor der Stadt herrscht Aufregung unter den Tieren. Kaninchen Knabberzahn und seine Freunde stehen vor einem Rätsel. Wer schlich nachts vor dem Kaninchenbau herum? Wer hat in den Vorräten von Eichhörnchen Sammelflink gestöbert? Und wer hat die Hügelchen von Maulwurfmädchen Motzi kaputtgemacht? War es tatsächlich der schwarze, wuschelige Hund, den Eva, die kluge Eule, am Morgen am Sportplatz gesehen hat? Gemeinsam versuchen die Tierkinder, dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen. Als es plötzlich in der Scheune scheppert und klappert, erleben sie eine Überraschung. Wer steckt da mit dem Kopf in einer Gie kanne fest und wie können sie ihm helfen? Vereint retten sie Peppo Pfotenwuff aus seiner Not. Diese lustige und herzerwärmende Geschichte ist mit zahlreichen Abbildungen illustriert und zeigt, dass man gemeinsam stark ist und viele Hindernisse überwinden kann - ein Lesespa für jedes Kinderzimmer.

Gerd Sebald (Editor)

Theorizing Social Memories: Concepts and Contexts

Editura: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Public debates over the last two decades about social memories, about how as societies we remember, make sense of, and even imagine and invent, our collective pasts suggest that grand narratives have been abandoned for numerous little stories that contest the unified visions of the past. But, while focusing on the diversity of social remembering, these fragmentary accounts have also revealed the fault-lines within the theoretical terrain of memory studies. This critical anthology seeks to bridge these rifts and breaks within the contemporary theoretical landscape by addressing the pressing issues of social differentiation and forgetting as also the relatively unexplored futuristic aspect of social memories. Arranged in four thematic sections which focus on the concepts, temporalities, functions and contexts of social memories, this book includes essays that range across disciplines and present a variety of theoretical approaches, from phenomenological sociology and systems theory to biography research and post-colonialism.

W. G. Sebald (Author)

History - Memory - Trauma

Editura: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA INS

Anul aparitiei: 2006

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor: Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, ...

Sebald Rudolf Steinmetz (Author)

Rechtsverhaltnisse Von Eingeborenen Volkern in Afrika Und Ozeanien

Editura: DELMAR

Anul aparitiei: 2014

\"Die "Internationale Vereinigung für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre zu Berlin\" schrieb im Jahre 1895 ihre Fragebogen über die Rechtsgewohnheiten der afrikanischen Naturvölker aus. Diese Fragebogen waren hauptsächlich von dem leider zu früh der vergleichenden Rechtswissenschaft durch den Tod entrissenen Dr. Albert Hermann Post aufgestellt. Sie wurden mit Unterstützung des deutschen Auswärtigen Amtes, der deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft, der Union Coloniale Francaise in Paris und verschiedener Missionen an Beamte, Missionare und andere Personen in Afrika und Ozeanien geschickt, die durch jahrelangen persönlichen Verkehr mit dem betreffenden Volksleben besonders vertraut erschienen. Mehrere der Befragten zeigten ihre Liebe für das sie umringende Volkswesen und ihr Interesse für die ethnographische Wissenschaft durch die meist sehr ausführliche Beantwortung der Fragebogen.\" [...] Zur Erfassung der Rechtsverhältnisse von eingeborenen Völkern in Afrika und Ozeanien zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entwickelte die internationale Vereinigung für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaft zu Berlin einen Fragebogen. Dieser wurde mit ...

Sebald Rudolf Steinmetz (Author)

Rechtsverhaltnisse Von Eingeborenen Volkern in Afrika Und Ozeanien

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Zur Erfassung der Rechtsverhaltnisse von eingeborenen Volkern in Afrika und Ozeanien zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entwickelte die internationale Vereinigung fur vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaft zu Berlin einen Fragebogen. Dieser wurde mit Unterstutzung des Auswartigen Amtes, der deutschen und franzosischen Kolonialgesellschaften sowie verschiedener Missionen an Beamte, Missionare und weitere Personen in ahnlichen Stellungen in Afrika und Ozeanien verschickt. Es sind deren umfangreiche Antworten, die Sebald Rudolf Steinmetz hier nun zusammenfasst und prasentiert. Sorgfaltig bearbeiteter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1903.

Sebald Weindl (Author)

Kinder Der Charisma

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Ein bisschen Hobbykicken auf Madeira - zum Abschluss der Saison und Karriere. Für die Jugendlichen des SSV Mertingen wird dies zum Alptraum! Knapp einer Katastrophe entgangen muss ihr Flugzeug eine dramatische Notwasserung durchführen, und die Passagiere treiben in ihren Rettungsinseln mitten auf dem Atlantik. Die Hobbykicker/innen aus Mertingen versuchen das Trauma des Absturzes aufzuarbeiten. Eine schwierige Mission. Und dann treffen sie auf ein Schiff - die "CHARISMA" - und werden gleich vom nächsten Trauma überrannt ...

Madeleine Sebald (Editor)

Genetics and Molecular Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 2012

The field of bacterial genetics has been restricted for many years to Escherichia coli and a few other genera of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria such as Pseudomonas, Bacillus, and Salmonella. The prevailing view up to recent times has been that anaerobic bacteria are interesting organisms but nothing is known about their genetics. To most microbiologists, anaerobic bacteria appeared as a sort of distant domain, reserved for occasional intrusions by taxonomists and medical microbiologists. By the mid-1970s, knowledge of the genetics and molecular biology of anaerobes began to emerge, and then developed rapidly. but also im- This was the result of advances in molecular biology techniques, portantly because of improvements in basic techniques for culturing anaerobes and for understanding their biochemistry and other areas of in- terest. Investigations in this field were also stimulated by a renewal of interest in their ecology, their role in pathology and in biotransformations, and in the search for alternative renewable sources of energy. The initial idea for this book came from Thomas D. Brock. When Dr. Brock requested my opinion about two years ago on the feasibility of ...

Winfried Georg Sebald (Author)

The Emigrants

Editura: PALGRAVE

Anul aparitiei: 2016

The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with memories, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects photographs--the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem.

Winfried Georg Sebald (Author)

The Rings of Saturn

Editura: PALGRAVE

Anul aparitiei: 2016

The Rings of Saturn --with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants ."

Winfried Georg Sebald (Author)

Vertigo

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Perfectly titled, Vertigo --W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel -- is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader, line by line, into a dizzying web of history, biography, legends, literature, and -- most perilously -- memories.

W. G. Sebald (Author)

Three Book Sebald Set: The Emigrants, the Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2016

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 distinguished by their translations, every line of which Sebald himself made pitch-perfect, slaving to carry into English all his essential elements: the shadows, the lambent fallings-back, nineteenth-century Germanic undertones, tragic elegiac notes, and his unique, quiet wit.