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  • Silent Catastrophes

    Essays

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Jo Catling ...
    From the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shaped his life and work.Silent Catastrophes brings together the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: The Description of Misfortune and Strange Homeland, published ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • A Place in the Country

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    Translated by Jo Catling ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English.This edition includes more than 40 pieces of art, all originally selected by W. G. Sebald.This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Saturn's Moons

    A W.G Sebald Handbook

    by Jo Catling, Richard Hibbitt ...
    The German novelist, poet and critic W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) has in recent years attracted a phenomenal international following for his evocative prose works such as Die Ausgewanderten (The Emigrants), Die Ringe des Saturn (The Rings of Saturn) and Austerlitz, spellbinding elegiac narratives which, through their deliberate blurring of genre boundaries and provocative use of photography, explore ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Emergence of Memory

    Conversations with W.G. Sebald

    by W.G. Sebald ...
    When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of a Moment

    Thirty-five Minutes in History and Imagination

    by Javier Cercas ...
    In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering everyone to get down. Only three men defied the order. For thirty-five minutes, as the cameras rolled, they stayed in ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Metamorphosis

    by Frans Kafka ...
    Translated by David Wyllie ...
    In Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis", Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Struggling to adapt to his new form, Gregor becomes isolated from his family, who are repulsed by his appearance. As Gregor's condition worsens, tensions rise within the household, ultimately leading to his tragic demise and forcing the family to confront their own lives ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature

    Edited by Raymond Furness, Malcolm Humble ...
    Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Men in Dark Times

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    "Each [essay is] a model of clarity, weight, gravity . . . each superbly centered on the moods, manners, works . . . of ten exemplary men and women" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)."Dark times" is Brecht's phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it suggest that those she writes about are not "mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist", but, rather, that the routine repetitive horrors of the twentieth century form the ... Read more

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  • A literature of restitution

    Critical essays on W. G. Sebald

    Edited by Jeannette Baxter, Valerie Henitiuk, Ben Hutchinson ...
    This book investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell, the essays collected in this volume place Sebald’s oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order to better understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics.Whilst opening up ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Carl E. Schorske ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse

    by Ingo Cornils, Kamakshi P. Murti, Marco Schickling, Martin Swales, Olaf Berwald, Osman Durrani, Paul Bishop, Ralph W. B. Freedman, Stefan Hoeppner, Volker Michels0, Adrian Hsia1, Andreas Solbach2, C. Immo Schneider3, Frederick A. Lubich4, Godela Weiss-Sussex5, Hans-Joachim Hahn6, Jeff Vahlbusch7 ...
    Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecological disaster, we discover that these problems have found universal expression in the works of this master storyteller. Hesse explores perennial themes, from the simple to the transcendental. Because he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD