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‘The magic of W. G. Sebald's incandescent body of work continues to unfold, with this unexpected collaboration’ (Susan Sontag)
For a number of years until his death in 2001, W. G. Sebald and the artist Jan Peter Tripp exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the startlingly original result of this long artistic friendship — a creative dialogue inspired by shared concerns.
Sebald's words and Tripp's images speak of moments salvaged from time passing, and of memory and remembrance. Both poet and artist explore the detail of reality, probing its depths and taking us to its very limits — the point at which eyes bear witness and facts are transformed by experience. With the same moving intensity as Sebald’s fiction, Unrecounted takes us to these unexplored spaces dense with meaning and emotion.
W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature and On the Natural History of Destruction.
Jan Peter Tripp was born in 1945 and lives and works in Alsace.
Michael Hamburger is a poet and translator. His Collected Poems 1941-1994 appeared in 1995 and his latest volume, Wild and Wounded, in 2004.
‘This poem of gazes has become a memorial, a bequeathal… If [Sebald] never tired of tracing the destinations of his soulmates among writers, outsiders and emigrants in his sentences endlessly meandering through space and time, this legacy of his has the density of epitaphs’ (Andrea Köhler)
For a number of years until his death in 2001, W. G. Sebald and the artist Jan Peter Tripp exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the startlingly original result of this long artistic friendship — a creative dialogue inspired by shared concerns.
Sebald's words and Tripp's images speak of moments salvaged from time passing, and of memory and remembrance. Both poet and artist explore the detail of reality, probing its depths and taking us to its very limits — the point at which eyes bear witness and facts are transformed by experience. With the same moving intensity as Sebald’s fiction, Unrecounted takes us to these unexplored spaces dense with meaning and emotion.
W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature and On the Natural History of Destruction.
Jan Peter Tripp was born in 1945 and lives and works in Alsace.
Michael Hamburger is a poet and translator. His Collected Poems 1941-1994 appeared in 1995 and his latest volume, Wild and Wounded, in 2004.
‘This poem of gazes has become a memorial, a bequeathal… If [Sebald] never tired of tracing the destinations of his soulmates among writers, outsiders and emigrants in his sentences endlessly meandering through space and time, this legacy of his has the density of epitaphs’ (Andrea Köhler)