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English
Penguin
23 February 2006
A brilliant collection of pieces written by W.G. Sebald over the twenty years before his death in 2001.

Sebald's final collection of essays provides a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as G nter Grass, Bruce Chatwin and Kafka, showing both how literature can provide restitution for the injustices of the world and how such literature came to have so great an influence on him.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   175g
ISBN:   9780141017860
ISBN 10:   0141017864
Pages:   240
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction and Unrecounted.

Reviews for Campo Santo

""A writer whose work [belongs] on the high shelf alongside that of Kafka, Borges and Proust."" -The New York Times Book Review ""Far outdoing even the best of these pieces are three set in Corsica. Perhaps intended as part of a new work of imagination, they compel a startled delight, and they compel painful regret-outrage even-that Sebald is gone and unable to continue."" -Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Brilliant . . . rollicking, sorrowful . . . [a] wonderfully mellifluous translation."" -The Boston Globe


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