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Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald''s haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald''s melancholic masterpiece.''Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald'' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times''Greatness in literature is still possible'' John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year''A work of obvious genius'' Literary Review''A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim'' Evening Standard''Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art'' The Times Literary Supplement ''I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague and their treatment by the Nazis'' ... Unknown localization key: "more"

Objev podobné jako Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald

A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald''s melancholic masterpiece.''Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald'' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times''Greatness in literature is still possible'' John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year''A work of obvious genius'' Literary Review''A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim'' Evening Standard''Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art'' The Times Literary Supplement ''I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald When W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide 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 Kafka, Nabokov, and Günter Grass, 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. Campo Santo is a fitting memorial to W.G. Sebald, who himself studied the shifting nature of memory and time with such sensitivity. 'A precious addition to the canon' Independent 'Will come to be seen as indispensable to an understanding of his work' Sunday Times 'Full of a sense of liberation and lightness ... these [pieces] abound in energy and work the authentic Sebaldian magic' Literary Review 'We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald's case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the ... Unknown localization key: "more"

Objev podobné jako Campo Santo - W. G. Sebald

Sebald''s On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers'' silence about a moment of mass destructionIn the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. Six hundred thousand civilians died, and three and a half million homes were destroyed. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his life and work, Sebald asks, how have so many writers allowed themselves to write it out of their experience and avoid articulating the horror? W.G. Sebald''s On the Natural History of Destruction sparked a wide-ranging debate in the German press.''Sebald makes exquisite art out of vile history'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent''One of the most important writers of our time'' A.S. Byatt, New Statesman ''Demands to be read for its grand emotional power ... it absorbs and horrifies and illuminates'' Scotsman''Brilliant and disturbing'' Antony Beevor, The TimesW . 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 ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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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 inspired himSilent 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 Nazi Germany, meant that concepts such as ‘home/land’, ‘borderland’ and ‘exile’ occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebald’s 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 Sebald’s 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 ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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‘We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald’s case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing’ John Banville, GuardianFrom 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 - appearing for the first time in EnglishAs 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 Sebald’s 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 Sebald’s 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 ... Unknown localization key: "more"

Objev podobné jako Silent Catastrophes - W. G. Sebald

Kniha představuje bitvu tří císařů ve světě známou jako Austerlitz a je stručným výkladem historického průběhu bitvy v kontextu moderních historických rekonstrukcí.Každoročně se na přelomu listopadu a prosince u příležitosti výročí bitvy u Slavkova sjíždí na jižní Moravu tisícovka „napoleonských vojáků“ z celé Evropy, aby ji během zimního víkendu „rekonstruovali“ v největší pravidelně konané vzpomínkové akci, kterou Projekt Austerlitz pořádá od roku 1998. V roce 2017 francouzský armádní generál Gobilliard, prezident Asociace držitelů Čestné legie, prohlásil: „Poprvé v životě jsem viděl takto provedenou ukázku a manévry, o kterých jsem se učil na vojenské akademii Saint Cyr!“

Objev podobné jako Bitva u Slavkova / The Battle of Austerlitz - Dalibor Gregor, Jakub Samek

V devíti studiích zkoumá W. G. Sebald tematický komplex domova a exilu, který je pro rakouskou literaturu 19. a 20. století tak charakteristický. Protože Sebald sám žil v cizině a pohybuje se zde ve známém terénu, odkrývají se jeho citlivému vnímání souvislosti, jejichž aktualitu dokládají v neposlední řadě neustále nově se vynořující otázka po identitě kdysi tak mocného Rakouska i časem se proměňující asimilační historie Židů. V esejích tohoto svazku hraje základní roli ztráta domova u řady rakouských literátů. Přeložil Radovan Charvát.

Objev podobné jako Domov plný úzkosti - W. G. Sebald

Německý spisovatel W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), přednesl v roce 1997 na univerzitě v Curychu v rámci tradičních přednášek z poetiky své analyticky hluboce propracované teze o překvapivě slabé odezvě v německé poválečné literatuře na zničující spojenecké bombardování německých měst během 2. světové války. Podle jeho slov, doložených historickým materiálem, se u mnoha autorů projevila naprostá neschopnost popsat to, co sami zažili, a uchovat to pro následující generace. Sebald se netajil názorem, že německá literatura zklamala tváří v tvář těmto hrůzám, z nichž povstala poválečná Spolková republika. Kniha je doplněna esejem o pochybném postoji po válce možná neprávem uznávaného spisovatele Alfreda Andersche za vlády nacistů a jeho oportunistickém obratu politického smýšlení po válce.

Objev podobné jako Letecká válka a literatura - W. G. Sebald

Německý spisovatel W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), přednesl v roce 1997 na univerzitě v Curychu v rámci tradičních přednášek z poetiky své analyticky hluboce propracované teze o překvapivě slabé odezvě v německé poválečné literatuře na zničující spojenecké bombardování německých měst během 2. světové války. Podle jeho slov, doložených historickým materiálem, se u mnoha autorů projevila naprostá neschopnost popsat to, co sami zažili, a uchovat to pro následující generace. Sebald se netajil názorem, že německá literatura zklamala tváří v tvář těmto hrůzám, z nichž povstala poválečná Spolková republika. Kniha je doplněna esejem o pochybném postoji po válce možná neprávem uznávaného spisovatele Alfreda Andersche za vlády nacistů a jeho oportunistickém obratu politického smýšlení po válce.

Objev podobné jako Letecká válka a literatura (poškozená) - W. G. Sebald

Ústředními texty posmrtně vydané knihy Campo Santo W. G. Sebalda (1944-2001) jsou čtyři fragmenty z připravované obsáhlé, ale už pak nikdy nevydané prózy o Korsice. Na tyto fragmenty navazují Sebaldovy literární eseje, jež jsou dokladem velkých autorových náklonností, od Kafky až k Nabokovovi. Důležité impulzy ovšem Sebald bral i ze současné literární tvorby a umění, např. od Jeana Améryho, Petera Weisse a Wolfganga Hildesheimera. Opět se vrací ke svým věčným tématům neodčinitelné zkázy a pustošení, jež u něho vzbuzují pocity zármutku a lítosti nad historií. Kniha Campo Santo je vzpomínkou na velkého vypravěče.

Objev podobné jako Campo Santo - W. G. Sebald

‘Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one''s regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed’ Anita Brookner, SpectatorWhat could possibly connect Stendhal''s unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of Sebald’s compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself.‘As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell… [Sebald] entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires’ Robert McCrum, Observer

Objev podobné jako Vertigo - Winfried G. Sebald

‘Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century’ The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.‘A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas… Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn''t an essay be a novel?), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears’ Teju Cole, Guardian

Objev podobné jako The Rings of Saturn - Winfried G. Sebald

''A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation... I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European civilization'' Susan Sontag At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald''s precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.''An unconsoling masterpiece... Exquisitely written and exquisitely translated...a true work of art'' Spectator

Objev podobné jako The Emigrants - Winfried G. Sebald

Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, The Rings of Saturn is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Objev podobné jako The Rings of Saturn - Winfried G. Sebald