Sea View has me again : Uwe Johnson in Sheerness / Patrick Wright ; with translations from the German by Damion Searls.

The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s.In 1974, a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Patrick, 1951- (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Repeater Books, 2020.
Subjects:
Johnson, Uwe, > 1934-1984.
Authors > Biography.
Authors.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:733 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE WRITER WHO BECAME A REEF
  • 1. Reading Uwe Johnson in Kent, 1970
  • 3
  • 2. On the Move but Nobody's Refugee
  • 3. The Border: The Distance: The Difference
  • 4. Praise and Denunciation: A Pain for All Zealots
  • 5. New York City: Beginning Anniversaries
  • 6. Leaving Berlin
  • pt. II THE ISLAND: MODERNITY's MUDBANK
  • 7. 1974: Looking out from Bellevue Road
  • 8. Neither St Helena nor Hong Kong
  • 9. Shellness: A Point with Three Warnings
  • 10. Coincidence on England's Baltic Shore
  • 11. Leysdown: The "On-Sea" Scenario
  • 12. Rolls without Royce: Leysdown Aloft
  • 13. Two Ways Down to the Sea: The Trade Union Baron and the Suffragists
  • pt. III THE FIVE TOWNS OF SHEERNESS: DEFINITELY NOT BERLIN, NEW YORK OR ROME
  • 14. Moving In
  • 15. Blue-Faced and Shivering: A Town on England's Fatal Shore?
  • 16. Fritz J. Raddatz's Perambulation
  • 17. Becoming "Sheerness-on-Sea": The Scramble for a Second Horse
  • 18. "Black Tuesday": The Day the World Ended
  • 19. First Moves on the Afterlife: The Modernist Chair Comes to Sheerness
  • pt. IV CULTURE: THREE ISLAND ENCOUNTERS
  • 20. All Praise to the Sheerness Times Guardian
  • 21. A Painter of Our Time
  • 22. A Job for the Town Photographer
  • pt. V SOCIETY: "I DON't WANT TO GET PERSONAL"
  • 23. Becoming "Charlie"
  • 24. Sheerness as "Moral Utopia"? (On Not Meeting Ray Pahl)
  • 25. "It's Your Opinion": A Postcard for the Kent Evening Post
  • 26. Implosion: Two Stories from the Site
  • pt. VI THE STORM OF MEMORY: A NEW USE FOR THE SASH WINDOWS OF NORTH KENT
  • 27. Unjamming Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass
  • 28. Sea Defences: From God's Will to "Puddicombe's Folly"
  • 29. Beach, Sea and "The View of a Memory"
  • 30. "What is that thing?": The SS Richard Montgomery and the "Caprice" of Bombs
  • 31. The Doomsday Shuffle
  • 32. Becoming Unfathomable: The Bomb Ship as "Murky Reality"
  • 33. Explosion: From the Richard Montgomery to the Cap Arcona
  • 34. Triumph of the Sheerness Wall
  • FREESTANDING TEXTS AND EXTRACTS FROM UWE JOHNSON's ISLAND STORIES
  • Reconnaissances
  • Oh! You're a German
  • Diagonally Across from My Window, to the Left
  • A German Among the English
  • Welcomed into the Community
  • So That Charles Can Write the Right Thing Too
  • An Involuntary Trip
  • A Good Idea, Charlie
  • One of My Friends in Sheerness
  • Not at All, Charlie
  • Welcome Back
  • There Sit the Guys
  • The Esplanade Right in Front of the House.