A Place in the Country - Poche

Written at the height of his career, A Place in the Country is W.G. Sebald's lyrical homage to six writers and artists who greatly influenced him in his life and work. Leading us from Johann Peter Hebel's musings on the cosmos, via Rousseau's period of solitude on the idyllic Ile Saint-Pierre, to the haunting "photographic" quality of Jan Peter Tripp's paintings, Sebald blends time and space, language and culture to recreate these intriguing personalities and the places they inhabited.
Filled with wonder, admiration and a certain kind of gratitude, these insightful essays reveal the beauty that inspired a remarkable writer.