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A Place in the Country
W. G. Sebald
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Description for A Place in the Country
Paperback. When the author 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 his years in England. In this book, 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. Translator(s): Catling, Jo. Num Pages: 224 pages, With 4x 4pg. full-colour insets and b/w integrated photographs throughout. BIC Classification: DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141037011
SKU
V9780141037011
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About W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Place in the Country
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
Shows a writer at his most inquisitive, gazing deeply under the surface of things
Financial Times
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Evening Standard
Sebald was in possession of the uncanny ability to make his own intellectual obsessions, immediately, compulsively his reader's
Observer
Shows a writer at his most inquisitive, gazing deeply under the surface of things
Financial Times
... Read more