Campo Santo (Hardcover)

by W Sebald (Author)

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (April 26 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0241142776
ISBN-13: 978-0241142776
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 2.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 540 g
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From Publishers Weekly

This brief volume is the latest and reportedly last collection of essays by German novelist and critic Sebald, who has seemed more prolific since his death in 2001 than in life. Despite the masterful translation, these essays fail to cohere, though they contain elements common to most of Sebald's work: an integration of art, politics and memory, framed by the writer's own curmudgeonly presence. The essays, however, feel unfinished, lacking polish and structural integrity. The collection is split into two parts, "Prose" and "Essays," with the first—a series of considerations of the landscape, history and social milieu of the island of Corsica—by far the more successful. The second, longer section contains an assortment of literary critical pieces, some detailed, such as a long essay about novelists writing about the destruction of German cities during WWII; others discursive, such as an apparently unfinished review of a book about Kafka's relationship with film that wanders from films Sebald himself viewed to films Kafka may or may not have seen. Although Sebald was a beautiful and intelligent writer, it's hard to see how these essays will appeal to anyone outside of scholars and already committed Sebald fans eager to read every word he ever set to paper.
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From Booklist

Sebald, a German writer based in England until his untimely death in December 2001, is internationally revered for his elegiac novels, including the award-winning Austerlitz (2001). Susan Sontag, herself too soon gone, praised his devotion to the real and his "self-portrait of a mind." These qualities are equally potent in Sebald's stunning nonfiction, beginning with On the Natural History of Destruction (2002) and continuing in this posthumously collected set of essays. Sebald is at his intensely observant, erudite, lyrical, and provocative best in the opening pieces, the beginnings of a planned book on Corsica. Detailed descriptions of Sebald's wanderings on the island turn into musings of astonishing beauty and insight into history, environmental decimation, and our feelings about death. These arresting meditations, brilliant syntheses of thought and feeling, are followed by masterful, passionate critical essays expressing Sebald's belief in the healing power of literature and our obligation to remember the past and respect life in all its wonders and mysteries. Donna Seaman
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