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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 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 Allgäu, 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.

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 of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo, A Place in the Country and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the Water. Jo Catling taught German and European literature at the University of East Anglia where she worked closely with W G Sebald from 1993 until his death. Translator of Sebalds A Place in the Country, she is editor (with Richard Hibbitt) of Saturn's Moons: W G Sebald - A Handbook (Legenda, 2011) and has published widely on Sebald and on Rainer Maria Rilke.

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
Irresistible . . . an intimate anatomy of the pathos, absurdity and perverse splendour of trying to find patterns in the chaos of the world
Independent
Erudite, truthful, moving
The Times
A beautiful book . . . about the crazy quest for meaning, and how we persist with it despite the shadows that slide towards us
Joanna Kavenna
Spectator

Goodreads reviews for A Place in the Country


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