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G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn―with its curious archive of photographs―records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. W. G.
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Along with memories, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects photographs―the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. A masterwork of W. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem.
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G. He is also journeying into the past. G. New directions Publishing Corporation. A masterwork of W. New directions Publishing Corporation. Sebald's marvelous first novel ― is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, venice, verona, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Riva, beset by nervous ailments, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village.
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There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. This tenth anniversary edition of W. When he is a much older man, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, fleeting memories return to him, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before.
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The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose. In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that “the curtain” represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has—a pre-interpreted world.
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Waterland, like the hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.
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The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought
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Louis, and St. For anyone interested in learning about late 19th- and early 20th- century imaginative thought, this engagingly written book is a good place to start.
On the Natural History of Destruction Modern Library Classics Paperback
Six hundred thousand German civilians died—a figure twice that of all American war casualties. During world war two, 131 german cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. New directions Publishing Corporation.
Collected Fictions
Modern Library. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius. Modern Library. Mariner Books.
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New directions Publishing Corporation. Modern Library. Modern Library. This volume brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories and his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Mariner Books. Illustrated with schulz's original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
Penguin Books. New directions Publishing Corporation. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership.