{"product_id":"silent-catastrophes-essays-in-austrian-literature","title":"Silent Catastrophes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who inspired him\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSilent Catastrophes\u003c\/i\u003e brings together for the first time in English the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: \u003ci\u003eThe Description of Misfortune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStrange Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighbouring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation by Nazi Germany, meant that concepts such as 'home\/land', 'borderland' and 'exile' occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebald's own.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through a series of remarkable close readings of texts by Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth and more, Sebald charts both the pathologies which so often drove their work and the seismic historical forces which shaped them. This sequence of essays will be a revelation to Sebald's English-language readers, tracing as they do so many of the themes which animate his own literary writings, to which these essays form a kind of prelude.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Unhappiness and misfortune are at the heart of \u003ci\u003eSilent Catastrophes\u003c\/i\u003e, but as Sebald writes, the description of misfortune contains within it the possibility of its overcoming, and melancholy - the contemplation of disaster in progress - is itself a form of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039456047242,"sku":null,"price":1172.52,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0326\/6727\/1306\/files\/WebSitesiKitapKapaklariSablonu_81_a8249ffa-a205-4e16-8003-51bcb4baf860.png?v=1776414448","url":"https:\/\/minoa.com\/en\/products\/silent-catastrophes-essays-in-austrian-literature","provider":"Minoa Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}