Unrecounted

Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his micropoems--miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works--with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp.

The lithographs portray, with stunning precision, pairs of eyes--the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Maurice. Brief as haiku, the poems are epiphanic and anti-narrative. What the author calls time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death here find a small home. The art and poems do not explain one another, but rather engage in a kind of dialogue. The longer I look at the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp, Sebald comments in his essay, the better I understand that behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the metaphysical lining of reality, so to speak.

Author: W. G. Sebald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/15/2007
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 10.02h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9780811217262
ISBN10: 0811217264
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | General
- Poetry | European | General