SEBALD, W.G; Michael Hamburger (translator). After Nature. London: Penguin Books. 2001.
8vo. Original cloth bound brown boards with gilt lettering on spine; Original illustrated dust wrapper with photograph of trees submerged in water; pp. [6], 112, [10]; minimal white stain to back board; near fine.
First UK edition.
Beginning with Canto II of Dante's Inferno, "I entered on the steep wild-wooded way", After Nature is Sebald's first literary work and an extended prose poem that was written in Germany in 1988. It concerns the life of three men all unified in their quest to understand the position of humankind in the world.
SKU: 2120475