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The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald (Paperback, 1997)
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The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be plain accounts of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester. There are even a great many photographs amid the text, which give the impression that the reader is poring over a family album, trying to tease out the truth behind the fading images. However, as Sebald s prose gradually exerts a powerful hold on the reader, the stories merge into one overwhelming evocation of the experience of exile and loss of homeland. Throughout the book the figure of Nabokov is used to symbolise the modern emigrant. Just as survival forced Nabokov to turn his back on four different homelands in the course of his life, so the emigrants in Sebald s stories are destined to wander far and wide, forever displaced and destined never to reach an end to their restless search for home and identity.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781860463495
eBay Product ID (ePID)87672259
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Emigrants
AuthorW.G. Sebald
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year1997
Number of Pages256 Pages
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Item Weight200 g
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Title_AuthorW.G. Sebald
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 25 Aug, 2021
The Emigrants - WG Sebald
Anything by W.G.Sebald is worth reading and this is no exception, although I don't think it rates as highly as his masterpiece 'Austerlitz'. Having said that it shows his idiosyncratic style of writing to perfection. The book is divided into 4 parts, each dealing with a different person, and there is a theme running through each one. Sebald is rather a 'marmite' author - but I am fond of marmite and in some ways he refashioned the way of telling a story.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 May, 2024
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