Austerlitz

Informationen zum Autor W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction , Unrecounted, Campo Santo , A Place in the Country and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the Water . Klappentext A special 10th anniversary edition of this novel, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of literature of the last decade. Zusammenfassung In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.

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• Autori: Anthea Bell, W G Sebald, W. G. Sebald, W.G. Sebald, Winfried G Sebald, Winfried G. Sebald, Sebald W. G., James Wood
• Con la collaborazione di: James Wood (Introduzione), Wood James (Introduzione), Anthea Bell (Traduzione), Bell Anthea (Traduzione)
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780241951804
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95180-4
• Pagine: 448
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Serie: HH FIC PB
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; England, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, POETRY / European / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Poetry by individual poets, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: writers, Biography: arts and entertainment, Literary studies: poetry and poets