Silent CatastrophesAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 23 January 2025
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From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him'A writer whose life and work has become a wonderful vindication of literary culture in all its subtle and entrancing complexity' Guardian Silent Catastrophes brings together for the first time in English the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: The Description of Misfortune and Strange Homeland, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991. As a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighbouring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation by Germany, meant that concepts such as `home/land, `borderland and `exile occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebalds own. Through a series of remarkable close readings of texts by Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth and more, Sebald charts both the pathologies which so often drove their work and the seismic historical forces which shaped them. This sequence of essays will be a revelation to Sebalds English-language readers, tracing as they do so many of the themes which animate his own literary writings, to which these essays form a kind of prelude. 'One of the most important writers of our time' A. S. Byatt
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