After natureAfter Nature, W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance.” The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages. After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author’s position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time. From the Hardcover edition. |
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At Isenheim, Sandrart had not been, but had heard of the altar- work there, which,
he writes, was so fashioned that real life could scarce have been other and
where, it was said, a St. Anthony with demons meticulously drawn was to be seen
.
At Isenheim, Sandrart had not been, but had heard of the altar- work there, which,
he writes, was so fashioned that real life could scarce have been other and
where, it was said, a St. Anthony with demons meticulously drawn was to be seen
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... the ground by a gruesome monster. Low down in the bottom-left corner cowers
the body, covered with syphilitic chancres, of an inmate of the Isenheim hospital.
Above it rises a two-headed and many- armed androgynous creature about to.
... the ground by a gruesome monster. Low down in the bottom-left corner cowers
the body, covered with syphilitic chancres, of an inmate of the Isenheim hospital.
Above it rises a two-headed and many- armed androgynous creature about to.
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These colours unfold as the reverse of the spectrum in a different consistency of
the air, whose deoxygenated void in the gasping breath of the figures on the
central Isenheim panel is enough to portend our death by asphyxiation; after
which ...
These colours unfold as the reverse of the spectrum in a different consistency of
the air, whose deoxygenated void in the gasping breath of the figures on the
central Isenheim panel is enough to portend our death by asphyxiation; after
which ...
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Nutzerbericht - FPdC - LibraryThingThis book is the english translation of the first literary work of Sebald, Nach der Natur. Ein Elementargedicht. It is an extended prose poem divided into three parts. The first is about the German ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
Abschnitt 1 | 5 |
Abschnitt 2 | 9 |
Abschnitt 3 | 43 |
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Alexander's battle Alps already Alsace altar panels altar-work Altdorfer Anna Anthony Anthony's fire Antonian hospital Aschaffenburg baker's daughter Bamberg Basel Bay of Avatsha beautiful blue body brothers child clouds coat colours curved feather Cyriax Danzig darkness dead death desert dust earth Erbach eyes face Frankfurt gaze German ghetto green grey Griinewald hand head heart horse hour Isenheim Jews land landscape later leaves Lepekhin light Lindenhardt living look Mainz Mathis Nithart Michael Hamburger midst miracle misfortune mountain nature night Niirnberg outermost painted painter passed peasants Petropavlovsk phosphorescent picture planet red headcloth sails saint salt Sandrart scarcely Seckler seems self-portrait shadows fall ship motionless sickle sits snow snow-covered soul Steller strange Tatar tells Theophon things tiny translated tree turned Tyumen valley Vitus Bering W. G. Sebald waves whale window Windsheim wings Wurzburg yellow
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | After nature |
| Autor | Winfried Georg Sebald |
| Herausgeber | Winfried Georg Sebald |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Winfried Georg Sebald |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Random House, 2002 |
| Original von | University of California |
| Digitalisiert | 9. Juli 2008 |
| Länge | 116 Seiten |
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