After Nature

Sebald's astonishing poetic debut, an ecologist who incarnates time and history, explores the eternal duality of man and nature, life and death.
This book marks Sebald's literary debut and his first work of poetry. Divided into three parts, it recounts the medieval German painter Matthias Grünewald and his paintings, the modern German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Stüler and his Arctic journeys, and Sebald's personal memories and family history. All three depict the conflict between man and nature. This book marks Sebald's first foray into writing and a literary exploration of the eternal duality between man and nature, life and death.
【Media Recommendation】
There was a time when the three long poems in this slim volume had such a profound effect on me that I could hardly read them. Once I entered their world, I was immediately transported to ten thousand other worlds.
This little book is a powerful drug; once you enter the author's world, you find yourself following his journey. As I read, I felt the same compulsion he felt; I felt how much I longed to have the experiences he described, and only writing about them could alleviate this inner longing. It wasn't just jealousy; I felt like my blood was boiling.
—Patti Smith, Time Train
A book of profound wisdom, but also of astonishing warmth, passion, and compassion.
— Andrew Musing, British Poet Laureate He is the most chaste writer.
—The Guardian
[Sebald’s] ability to enter diverse interior landscapes and to reproduce with impartial empathy the geography of the whole experience gives his writing a … solemn and somber beauty.
—The New York Times Book Review
Here we find the outlines or boundaries of his unique vision, the intertwined and often unexplained causal threads that make up life, and reflections on great themes such as exile, memory, and loss.
—The Washington Post
Immersive and moving…[After Nature] is a great introduction to this writer who is so impressive and irresistible, even for those who insist they don’t like or understand poetry.
—USA Today
These verses retain the virtues of Sebald’s style, with their elegance and clarity…as do, in fact, every word he wrote.
After Nature is a work of immense power and seriousness, fully worthy of comparison with the prose works of Sebald's final decade.
—The New York Review of Books
An extraordinary work. A relentlessly beautiful poem, complex yet savagely penetrating.
--"Scot"
It's both compelling and perplexing. When you read Sebald, you're transported into another realm. Reading him is a truly sublime experience.
——Literary Review
It combines difficult academic facts, delicately woven imagination, and extended thinking about the nature of existence.
—Financial Times
Astonishingly written. A true poet at work. Sebald's most ambitious work.
——Evening Standard
【Editor's Recommendation】
An ecologist who embodies time and memory:
Sebald surveys the historical landscape formed by the accumulation of memories and imagination, artistic research and scientific investigation, and questions the position of mankind in nature in the proliferation and decline, fullness and ebb of life.
Force of Nature:
With astonishing words, Sebald staged a three-act "pathological drama" for the sick body of the world, in which strange colors and mournful black and white, worldly turmoil and holy silence appeared alternately: in Matthias Grünewald's brush, nature is corrupt, deformed and degenerate; in Georg Wilhelm Strürer's expedition, the sea in the north makes people introspective, frightened and pious; Sebald realized from the ominous stars at the time of his birth and the industrial ruin he witnessed later that human history is nothing more than a recurring survival.
Savage Free Verse:
This book showcases a vocabulary, rhetoric, ideological texture, cultural depth, and intellectual density unlike any other in poetry. It ambitiously encompasses themes of nature, history, immigration, and loss, and meticulously crafts the intertextual details that frequently and richly recur in his later works. It is noteworthy that, while Sebald's novels are known for their long, unbroken sentences, the lines in this book break off savagely here and abruptly stop there, raising the question: does this prayer to nature also mimic its own ruthlessness and impermanence?

2023-01-01

广西师范大学出版社

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9787559854209