Product Description

AFTER NATURE is W.G. Sebald's first literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey. In this long prose poem published in Germany in 1988 and now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, Sebald introduces many of the themes which he explores in his subsequent books and which will be familiar to readers of THE EMIGRANTS, THE RINGS OF SATURN, VERTIGO and AUSTERLITZ. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, each of the three distinct parts gives centre-stage to a different character from a different century - the last being Sebald himself.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #770130 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-27
• Original language: German
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
'A deeply intelligent book, but also a marvellously warm, exciting and compassionate one' Andrew Motion

Sunday Times
"you are immediately, unmistakeably in Sebald country …it is also clear that you are in the company of a quiet genius."

Sunday Times
"Like all great writers, he has the innate ability to blend the personal with the historical, the individual with the universal."