by W. G. Sebald · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596121519
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«Die Beschreibung des Unglücks» is the essay collection by W. G. Sebald, published by Fischer Taschenbuch in paperback (199 pages, in German).
Sebald studies Austrian literature from Stifter to Handke and the melancholy of authors such as Schnitzler, Kafka, Canetti or Bernhard. He investigates the psychological conditions of writing and how personal difficulties and historical calamities shape the work, concluding that narrating misfortune holds the possibility of overcoming it.
Subtitle: Zur österreichischen Literatur von Stifter bis Handke. Number 12151 in the Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe series. Published in 1994.
For readers interested in literary criticism, in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Austrian literature, and in the essayistic work of W. G. Sebald.
Winfried Georg Sebald, known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker "widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature."
