Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Uwe Schütte worked as Reader in German in British higher education until Brexit. He has edited over ten volumes and written more than fifteen monographs on contemporary German-language literature and German pop music, with a focus on W. G. Sebald, Heiner Müller and Kraftwerk.'A terrific book which manages to return Sebald-studies back to a Sebaldian place where grand historical sweeps and the merest marginalia illuminate each other to new effect. Overall, it refreshes both our sense of Sebald as an academic and literary subversive and of the astonishing breadth of themes addressed in and provoked by his work - in film, in pop music, in relation to the Anthropocene, in the cult of The Sebaldian to name a few - and it does so while remaining accessible.' Grant Gee, director of Patience: After Sebald (2011)
'This is a wonderful handbook of short, readable essays that explores the lesser-known aspects of this complex and elusive writer whose documentary style of prose has always beguiled us into believing we know more about the man than we do.' Tacita Dean, artist
'A welcome critical repositioning of Sebald and his oeuvre: away from the academy, and freed from the clutches of the Anglophone critical establishment. These interventions resist - as powerfully as their subject did - the jargon of inauthenticity, and give us a Sebald more singular in vision, and less capable of assimilation to dogma - whether humanist or traditionalist - than our increasingly polarized era might prefer.' Will Self
'If you are interested in Sebald at all, this is an important book that succinctly covers nearly every aspect of his life, career, and writings. It's a terrific starting point to learn more about Sebald, especially since the writing is very accessible.' Terry, https://sebald.wordpress.com/