THE UNDISCOVER'D COUNTRY

W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is the most prominent and perhaps the most enigmatic German-language writer of recent decades. His books hav e had a more profound impact outside the German-speaking world than those of any other. His innovative approach to writing brings to the fore concerns that are central to contemporary culture: the relationship between memory, history, and trauma/ the experience of exile and our relation to place/ and the role of literature (and photography) in the remembrance of the past. This collection of es says pla...[Llegir més]