After NatureRandom House, 2002 - 116 Seiten After 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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... Steller escapes the city's bustle . Neatly he walks the paths between the flowerbeds , marvels at the hothouses , filled with tropical plants , learns one new name after another and is almost beside himself with so much hope when , from ...
... Steller escapes the city's bustle . Neatly he walks the paths between the flowerbeds , marvels at the hothouses , filled with tropical plants , learns one new name after another and is almost beside himself with so much hope when , from ...
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... Steller speaks of the light of nature . But all things , Theophon says , all things , my son , transmute into old age , life diminishes , everything declines , the proliferation of kinds is a mere illusion , and no one knows to what end ...
... Steller speaks of the light of nature . But all things , Theophon says , all things , my son , transmute into old age , life diminishes , everything declines , the proliferation of kinds is a mere illusion , and no one knows to what end ...
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... Steller remembers . On December 8th they tie the captain on to a plank and push him down into the hole . It is not Thy will , Lord , to abandon to the wild beasts the souls of them that profess Thee . Rather for the faithful a meal ...
... Steller remembers . On December 8th they tie the captain on to a plank and push him down into the hole . It is not Thy will , Lord , to abandon to the wild beasts the souls of them that profess Thee . Rather for the faithful a meal ...
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Alexander's battle Alps already Alsace altar panels altar-work Altdorfer Anna Anthony Anthony's fire Antonian hospital Aschaffenburg Bamberg Bay of Avatsha beautiful blue body brothers child clouds colours curved feather Cyriax Danzig darkness dead death desert dust earth Erbach eyes face Frankfurt Fürth gaze German ghetto green grey Grünewald 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 Nürnberg outermost painted painter peasants perscrutamini Petropavlovsk phosphorescent picture picture's planet red headcloth sails saint salt Sandrart scarcely seems self-portrait shadows fall ship motionless sickle sits smoke 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 Würzburg yellow Zülch