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A review by mlindner
After Nature by Michael Hamburger, W.G. Sebald
3.0
This is divided into three main sections, entitled: ...As the Snow on the Alps, And If I Remained by the Outermost Sea, and, Dark Night Sallies Forth. The 1st is about Matthias Grünewald, a German Renaissance painter. The 2nd is about Georg Wilhelm Steller, a botanist-explorer of the Enlightenment. The last is about the author himself.
This was OK but it assumes a lot of knowledge of all of these men to fully appreciate, much less understand, the poems.
After reading it I found this essay, primarily about the 1st section of the book, via the blog 3 Quarks Daily.
http://nonsite.org/issue-1/sebalds-after-nature-authorship-at-the-threshold-of-representation
This was OK but it assumes a lot of knowledge of all of these men to fully appreciate, much less understand, the poems.
After reading it I found this essay, primarily about the 1st section of the book, via the blog 3 Quarks Daily.
http://nonsite.org/issue-1/sebalds-after-nature-authorship-at-the-threshold-of-representation