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23 reviews
Winfried Georg Sebald, W. G. Sebald

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001

In sleepless hours the urgent desire to belong to no nation
Sebald published his first, well, novel, in 1990. He invented a new genre of literature, a kind of combination of travel writing and literary plus historical essay, with a minimal addition of 'plot'. The travels are in time and in space. The space in Vertigo is Northern Italy with extensions into Austria and Bavaria. The book at first glance seems to be consisting of four stories, but that is a ...

del Natural
Winfried Georg Sebald, W. G. Sebald

Anagrama, 2005

Austerlitz

73 reviews
W. G. Sebald

Random House, 2001

First hiding from, then searching for time lost
'And I remember, Vera told me, said Austerlitz, that it was Aunt Otylie who taught you...'. This quote encapsulates the narrative technique of the book nicely. Austerlitz tells his story to the unnamed narrator, who is a German living in England, like Sebald. I bought this pocket book by mistake in a 3 for 2 sale, only knowing that it had been selected as book of the year in England some time ...

The Emigrants

41 reviews
W.G. Sebald

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1996

The trail of the butterfly man: homage to Vladimir Dimitrovich
Having my appetite for Sebald wetted by Austerlitz, I picked up the Emigrants with high expectations, and they were surpassed: on top of the expected modern masterpiece I got a recognition of one the greatest writers on emigration that Europe produced in the 20th century. Nabokov shows up in all four pieces in small roles, a bit like Hitchcock did in his films. His appearances are as dispersed, ...

Young Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald

Penguin Books, 2005

Campo Santo (Modern Library Paperbacks)

3 reviews
W.G. Sebald

Modern Library, 2006

The Great Enigma: History in Snapshots and Elegies
WG Sebald whose too early accidental death in 2001 is a much-lamented loss to the literary world he so quietly entered briefly before his demise. He is a unique writer, one whose style includes ramblings and crude snapshots of incidental places that support his strange tales. For many he is an acquired taste and only time will tell whether his honored books will withstand the test of ...

Putrida Patria
Winfried Georg Sebald, W. G. Sebald

Anagrama, 2005

On the Natural History of Destruction (Modern Library Paperbacks)

14 reviews
W.G. Sebald

Modern Library, 2004

Flies of the Lord
Why was there so little German writing about the destruction of the war? And why was the little that did get done so steeped in mystic rambling instead of acute description and analysis? Sebald's theory: this was so for the same reason that enabled the Germans to go for their amazing reconstruction: they were so numbed by the experience, that they had turned off any perception and just put one ...

After Nature

7 reviews
W.G. Sebald

Random House, 2002

DNA for Sebald's Prose Works
This triptych prose poem actually was published before Sebald's prose books. The word 'poem' is a loose word here, as words like 'fiction' and 'novel' were in "Austerlitz", "Vertigo", "Rings of Saturn" and "The Emigrants". This poem is a progenitor of the later work, and has much of the same agenda as the books. "After Nature" follows three characters: Grunewald, a Renaissance painter, Steller, ...

The Rings of Saturn

41 reviews
W. G. Sebald

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1998

The night of time far surpasseth the day and who knows when was the Aequinox?
Sebald takes a walk in Suffolk. He sees places and things, and remembers people and books, and thinks of history. This triggers reflections on natural, social and cultural decay, on human greed and callousness, on inhuman monstrosities. It goes like this: he is in Lowestoft, the easternmost city of England, in an area that is depressed and that had a somewhat more glorious past. Fisheries, ...

Unrecounted

2 reviews
W. G. Sebald

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2005

Like an unknown trunk with a stranger's garments in it
My first thought was that Sebald (1944-2001) might have been a great novelist but he wasn't too good as a poet. And my second thought was that the good people at New Directions are really milking his posthumous fame to try to sell this puzzling "keepsake," as they call it, for $22.95, when it is so manifestly inferior to his other books. But luckily I kept the book on top of my desk for awhile ...

Manuelle Medizin: Eine Einführung in Theorie, Diagnostik und Therapie für Ärzte und Physiotherapeuten
H.-D. Neumann

Springer, 2003

Die 6. Auflage wurde überarbeitet und erweitert, so dass sie auch als Grundlage für den Basiskurs in den neueren osteopathischen Techniken verwendet werden kann. Das Kapitel "Grundlagen der Manuellen Medizin" wird durch ein von H. Locher erarbeitetes neurologisches Denkmodell ergänzt. Neu hinzugefügt ist der Abschnitt "Bindegewebe" von L. Beyer. G. Marx aktualisierte die "Röntgenuntersuchung der Wirbelsäule". In einem neuen Kapitel "Die ...

Los Emigrados
W. G. Sebald

Anagrama, 2006

Austerlitz

2 reviews
W.G. Sebald

Penguin Books Ltd, 2002

"Austerlitz" is a gorgeous book
This is a beautifully written book, and although it is a work of fiction it reads simply as recollections told to a narrator, who meets Jacques Austerlitz during his wanderings throughout Europe. Rather than tell Austerlitz's story directly, Sebald allows it to unfold through a series of chance encounters with the narrator (whose name escaped me, if he has one in the book). It is the story of a ...

Les Anneaux de Saturne
W.G. Sebald, Bernard Kreiss

Gallimard, 2003

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