Book description
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 G nter 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 real thing' John Banville, Guardian
'Sebald was probably the greatest intellect and voice of the late
twentieth century' Anthony Beevor, The Times
'A writer whose explorations of time and memory make him arguably
the closest author modern European letters has to rival Borges'
Sunday Times
W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg u, 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 in England in 1970. He was Professor of European
Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of
The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo,
Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of
Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now
and A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in
a volume called Across the Land and the Water.
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.
