After Nature
After Nature by W.G. Sebald, published by National Geographic Books in July 2003, is a reprint edition comprising 128 pages in English. This literary work, translated by Michael Hamburger, delves into the lives of three men who grapple with humanity’s relationship to the natural world. Through their experiences, Sebald presents a narrative that reveals both beauty and cruelty, reflecting on the complexities of existence and the impact of historical legacies.
Readers will encounter the stories of Matthias Grünewald, a notable German Renaissance painter, and Georg Steller, an Enlightenment botanist-explorer. The author also shares his own reflections as he traverses landscapes marked by the remnants of past certainties. After Nature introduces themes that resonate throughout Sebald’s oeuvre, offering insights into the interplay between nature and human experience. This edition invites exploration of subjects such as poetry and the intricate connections between animals and nature within a European context.
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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.
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