New book review…
#WGSebald #Sebald
http://richardcarter.com/reviews/book-review-unrecounted-by-w-g-sebald-amp-jan-peter-tripp/

#whatimreading #sebald #theemigrants

I found these pictures on a roll of film that hadn’t been developed for over 20 years. They feel very Sebaldian.

#sebald #oldpictures #holidaysnaps #photography

When I was a kid, my folks – like W.G.#Sebald’s grandfather – bought a “farmer’s almanac”. Or was it a purchase? Surely in the grocery store or the gas station it was thrown before the cashier and rung up with the soda pop, the ten gallons of gas, and the candy bar,, but I remember the almanac as an almost natural product that appeared on our low table in the living room, like fallen leaves appeared on the lawn or dirt clods... #Hebel https://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2023/01/jp-hebel.html

⬆ Text von W. G. Sebald aus der Erzählung 'Ambros Adelwarth'.

Die Ausgewanderten (6 von 5 Sterne)
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/neuauflage-der-moralisch-strenge-herr-sebald-und-die-100.html

Sebald starb am 14.12. 2001 bei einem Verkehrsunfall. Was für ein Verlust. #Sebald

⬆ Text von W. G. Sebald aus der Erzählung 'Ambros Adelwarth'.

Die Ausgewanderten (6 von 5 Sterne)
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/neuauflage-der-moralisch-strenge-herr-sebald-und-die-100.html

Sebald starb am 14.12. 2001 bei einem Verkehrsunfall. Was für ein Verlust. #Sebald

“The population decided—out of sheer panic at first—to carry on as if nothing had happened.

- “Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures”

― W.G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction

#Sebald

"Walter Benjamin has said, “Every great writer creates a new genre.” #Sebald belongs to this exclusive group. He is impossible to categorize. Does he write fiction, non-fiction, documentary, travelogues, or biographies? It often appears uncertain, but what is not in dispute is that Sebald creates fabulous art. He is a master at paring his initially voluminous writings back to the most fascinating parts, and he layers his literary world with a visual one..."

https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/letting-silence-speak/

After finishing Carole Angier’s incredible Sebald biography, I took great sustenance from the fact that even Sebald complained about his students. At one point he despaired that one of his UEA undergraduates was surprised to discover that Kafka actually wrote in German. #literature #sebald #kafka #biography #uea

#7books

The #Weirdstone of Brisingamen – #AlanGarner

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#Alice in #Wonderland – #LewisCarroll

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#TheWormOuroboros – #EREddison

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The #HouseOnTheBorderlands – #WilliamHopeHodgson

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Confessions of a #JustifiedSinner – #JamesHogg

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The #RingsOfSaturn – #WGSebald

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#Haiku – #RHBlyth

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On sober reflection I’ve decided to swap out The Worm Ouroboros, for #Slaughterhouse5 – #Vonnegut

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#Garner #Carroll #Eddison #Hodgson #Hogg #Sebald #Blyth

I just finished reading WG #Sebald Vertigo. Sebald was a professor of German literature at the University of East Anglia. He's more famous for writing about the aftermath of the Holocaust (e.g. Emigrants) but Vertigo is his first book and introduced his strange style to the world. Fittingly given the title, I found it a disconcerting read. Ostensibly a travelogue, complete with blurred pictures, some purportedly from a personal camera, it follows the author's trip from the UK to his childhood village (which, bizarrely, is referred to as "W." like in some kind of 19thC novel) in alpine Bavaria, via Venice, Riva and some nauseating bus journeys. But weirdly there are references to fictional characters (the Hunter Gracchus, who was a character in a bizarre Kafka short story- neither dead nor alive) and real, dead characters (the writer Stendahl and his lovers- presumably a fictionalised account). Some of the prose is mesmerizing - and almost effortlessly so as it describes the beautiful countryside, or the nervousness the traveler feels when he thinks he is being followed, which I found quite relatable. What makes the book disconcerting is that you don't know what is real, what is "really imagined" (ie when Sebald thinks he is being followed) and what is purely fictional. A good example is the description of the death of a real hunter in W., which happened during Sebald's childhood (perhaps? we don't know)- which parallels Gracchus' fictional death. In this context the pictures cease to be innocent travel snaps but instead take on a more sinister function as part of the deception wrought on the reader. I'm not sure what to make of it. would be interested in the opinions of anyone else who has read it.

#sebald