{"product_id":"silent-catastrophes-essays-hardcover","title":"Silent Catastrophes: Essays - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. G. Sebald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJo Catling\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the renowned author of \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecomes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shaped his life and work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilent Catastrophes\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: \u003ci\u003eThe Description of Misfortune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStrange Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighboring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation by Nazi Germany, meant that concepts such as \"home\/land,\" \"borderland\" and \"exile\" occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebald's own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a series of remarkable close readings of texts by Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth, and more, Sebald charts both the pathologies which so often drove their work and the seismic historical forces which shaped them. This sequence of essays will be a revelation to Sebald's English-language readers, tracing as they do so many of the themes which animate his own literary writings, to which these essays form a kind of prelude. This is an essential new edition from \"a writer whose life and work has become a wonderful vindication of literary culture in all its subtle and entrancing complexity\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. G. Sebald\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz \u003c\/i\u003e(named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eAfter Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnrecounted\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCampo Santo, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSilent Catastrophes\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.81 x 8.19 x 5.67 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984015753517,"sku":"9781400067725","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/DG2olLTrPo9781400067725.webp?v=1776081401","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/silent-catastrophes-essays-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}