W. G. Sebald: Unrecounted
Unrecounted
Buch
- Illustration: Jan Peter Tripp
- Übersetzung: Michael Hamburger
- New Directions Publishing Corporation, 10/2007
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780811217262
- Bestellnummer: 6113188
- Umfang: 112 Seiten
- Gewicht: 342 g
- Maße: 257 x 154 mm
- Stärke: 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.10.2007
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his "micropoems"-miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works-with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp.The lithographs portray, with stunning precision, pairs of eyes-the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Maurice. Brief as haiku, the poems are epiphanic and anti-narrative. What the author calls "time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death" here find a small home. The art and poems do not explain one another, but rather engage in a kind of dialogue. "The longer I look at the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp," Sebald comments in his essay, "the better I understand that behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the metaphysical lining of reality, so to speak."
