A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY

When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to h im throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Place in the Country, he reflects on si x of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography and ess ay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean -Jacques...[Read more]