„w g sebald”

Zamieszczone w niniejszym tomie eseje pochodzą z trzech książek W.G. Sebalda: Die Beschreibung des Unglücks (1985), Unheimliche Heimat (1991) i Logis in einem Landhaus (1998). Obiektami dociekań i interpretacji albo bohaterami esejów niemieckiego autora są m.in. Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhar...

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. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all...

What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coas...