The Emigrants

Informationen zum Autor W G Sebald (Author) W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. 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, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz . W. G. Sebald died in 2001. Michael Hulse and Simon Rae (Translators) Michael Hulse teaches poetry at Warwick University and regularly does reading tours in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. He is based in Warwick. Simon Rae is a playwright , novelist and broadcaster (he presented Radio 4's 'Poetry Please' for several years). He lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Both Michael Hulse and Simon Rae are published poets and winners of the National Poetry Competition. Klappentext W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg¿ in the Bavarian Alps! in 1944. 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! settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia! and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize! the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal! The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001. Zusammenfassung I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European civilization' Susan Sontag At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: W G Sebald, W. G. Sebald, W.G. Sebald, Winfried G. Sebald
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Hulse (Traduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.11.2002
• EAN: 9780099448884
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944888-4
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Jewish, 20th Century, Philosophy, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Biographical fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Relating to Jewish people and groups