Campo Santo

Resumen del libro

"Campo Santo" is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald.

When W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. "Campo Santo" is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life.

Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Kafka, Nabokov, and Gunter Grass, showing both how literature can provide restitution for the injustices of the world and how such literature came to have so great an influence on him. "Campo Santo" is a fitting memorial to W.G.

G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, 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".

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong W. G. Sebaldx{0026}lt;/strong (1944-2001) nació en Wertach, Alemania. Después de acabar sus estudios universitarios vivió en Suiza, y luego se trasladó a Inglaterra. Desde 1970 fue profesor en Norwich. Entre sus galardones figuran el premio Joseph Breitbach, el Heinrich Heine y, en 2002, el Independent Foreign Fiction por Austerlitz. En Anagrama se han publicado x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Del natural, Vértigo, Pútrida patria, Los emigrados, Los anillos de Saturno, Sobre la historia natural de la destrucción, Austerlitzx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Campo Santo.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/p