Silent Catastrophes av W. G. Sebald

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<p><b>From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of <i>Austerlitz </i>and <i>The Rings of Saturn</i>, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him</b><br><br><i>''A writer whose life and work has become a wonderful vindication of literary culture in all its subtle and entrancing complexity'' Guardian</i><br><br><i>Silent Catastrophes</i> 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: <i>The Description of Misfortune</i> and <i>Strange Homeland</i>, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991.<br><br>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 Germany, meant that concepts such as ¿home/land¿, ¿borderland¿ and ¿exile¿ occupy a prominent role in its literature