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A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY

A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY

WINFRIED GEORG SEBALD

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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
2014
ISBN:
978-0-14-103701-1
Pages:
202
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A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W.G. Sebald. When W.G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Place in the Country, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp. Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St. Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiration - Sebald lovingly brings his subjects to life in his distinctive, inimitable voice.

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