Place In The Country

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From the author of the critically-acclaimed Austerlitz" & " Across the Land & Water comes". "A Place in the Country" the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works. When W. G. Sebald the prize-winning author of " Austerlitz" travelled to Manchester in 1966 he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life & during the years when he was settled in Engl&. In "A Place in the Country" he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person & as a writer from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography & essay & finding as ever inspiration in place
- as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre the tiny lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace & inspiration
- Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive inimitable voice. A " Place in the Country" is a window into the mind of this much loved & much missed writer. Praise for W.G. Sebald: "A new kind of writing combining fiction memoir travelogue philosophy & much else besides...greatness in literature is still possible". (John Banville " Irish Times"). " When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience". (" Literary Review"). " Is literary greatness still possible? One of the few answers available to English-Language readers is the work of W.G. Sebald". (Susan Sontag). W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau Germany in 1944. He studied German language & literature in Freiburg Switzerland & Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester & settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia & the author of " Austerlitz"; " The Emmigrants" which won a series of major awards including the Berlin Literature Prize the Heinrich Boll Prize the Heinrich Heine Prize & the Joseph Breitbach Prize."