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false <![CDATA[After Nature (Modern Library Paperbacks)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171134767m/88444.jpg 88444 8 After Nature, W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance.” The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages. After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author’s position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time. From the Hardcover edition. 1804246 1995 After Nature (Modern Library Paperbacks) total:113|5:33|4:44|3:30|2:5|1:1| 113 442 177 12 5 0 false false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 17:52:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 18:11:21 -0700 2009
The thing with Sebald's prose is that it always seemed poetic to me, in a forlorn, elegiac way.

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this, from the second section, about the bering expedition into the arctic:
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