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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... desert , in 1300 acquired the site from the Murbach Cluniacs to found an Antonian hospital for the cure of St. Anthony's fire which raged throughout all Europe , an infection of the blood that led to the rotting away of the limbs and ...
... desert , in 1300 acquired the site from the Murbach Cluniacs to found an Antonian hospital for the cure of St. Anthony's fire which raged throughout all Europe , an infection of the blood that led to the rotting away of the limbs and ...
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... desert may be the one with the heart of glass , the bird flying ever closer to us , of which another prophet of the last days announces that it will shit into the sea so that the water boils itself out , that the earth trembles and the ...
... desert may be the one with the heart of glass , the bird flying ever closer to us , of which another prophet of the last days announces that it will shit into the sea so that the water boils itself out , that the earth trembles and the ...
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... desert . How many machines I'd built , how many works designed , before I lost my belief in the science I'd always served . I had arrived at one of the dead bays of time , like that Tatar with the red headcloth and the white curved ...
... desert . How many machines I'd built , how many works designed , before I lost my belief in the science I'd always served . I had arrived at one of the dead bays of time , like that Tatar with the red headcloth and the white curved ...
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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