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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Random House Inc
Publication date August 1, 2002
Pages 116
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780375504853
ISBN-10 0375504850
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight 0.58 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $21.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A biographical poetic triptych explores the lives of medieval German painter Matthias Grunewald, eighteenth-century explorer and naturalist Georg Stellar, and Sebald himself, as his describes his own haunting odyssey through twentieth-century Germany. 10,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: After Nature, W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance.” The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages.

After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author’s position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time.

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from Random House Inc (August 1, 2002)
9780375504853 | details & prices | 116 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.58 lbs | List price $21.95
About: A biographical poetic triptych explores the lives of medieval German painter Matthias Grunewald, eighteenth-century explorer and naturalist Georg Stellar, and Sebald himself, as he describes his own haunting odyssey through twentieth-century Germany.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from New Museum of Contemporary Art (November 1, 2008)
9780915557929 | details & prices | 115 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $24.95
Reprint edition from Modern Library (July 1, 2003)
9780375756580 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $15.00
About: A biographical poetic triptych explores the lives of medieval German painter Matthias Grunewald, eighteenth-century explorer and naturalist Georg Stellar, and Sebald himself, as his describes his own haunting odyssey through twentieth-century Germany.

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