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AFTER NATURE - W G SEBALD TASCHENBUCH

After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald  author of Austerlitz'The greatest
writer of our time' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald  author of Austerlitz  is his first
literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey.In this long
prose poem  Sebald introduces many of the themes that he explores in his subsequent books.
Focusing on the conflict between man and nature  each of the three distinct parts of After
Nature give centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being
W.G. Sebald himself.'A deeply intelligent book  but also a marvellously warm  exciting and
compassionate one' Andrew Motion'A début of rare poetic grandeur' Irish Times'Astonishing
writing. A true poet at work' Evening Standard'Graceful  allusive  serious  but also immensely
readable' Sunday Telegraph'When you read Sebald you are transported to another realm'Literary
ReviewW . 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 1996 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  Campo Santo  Unrecounted  For Years Now and A
Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and
the Water.

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