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Campo Santo

Campo Santo( )
Author: Sebald, W. G.
Translator: Bell, Anthea
ISBN:978-1-4000-6229-4
Publication Date:Mar 2005
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Random House
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.87 x 8.53 x 0.95 Inches
Book Weight:0.806 Pounds
Author Biography
Sebald, W. G. (Author)
He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. He has taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England since 1970. He became a professor of European literature in 1987. From 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. He was born in Wertach in Allgau, Germany in 1944.

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