Author

Contributions

  • Schwartz, Lynne Sharon - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Seven Stories, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

44,000 words, Guess

Page Count

176 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC833.914
  • LCCPT2681.E18 Z46 2010

Description

When German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through pieces culled from essays, interviews, and reviews, award-winning translator and author Lynn Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the late Sebald, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation in post-Nazi Europe. With contributions from poet, essayist, and translator Charles Simic, New Republic editor Ruth Franklin, Bookworm radio host Michael Silverblatt, and more, The Emergence of Memory offers Sebald's own voice in interviews between 1997 up to a month before his death in 2001. Also included are cogent accounts of almost all of Sebald's books, thematically linked to events in the contributors' own lives.

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