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Campo Santo
W.G. Sebald
- Penguin UK
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Publisher | Penguin UK |
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ISBN | 9780141017860 |
Publication date | February 2006 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 240 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
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.