In memory of the memories of W. G. Sebald



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A great man and a haunting and evocative writer died Dec. 14, 2001. W. G. Sebald wrote books like no one else before or after him. His books involve a melancholy prowl through the wreckage of the 20th century and his own sometimes bewildered fragments of memory. They are always described as fiction, yet take the form of memoir and are illustrated by photographs that uncannily and exactly match his words. They are real beyond real. You can do no better than to read him. RE

The entry on Sebald in Wikipedia.


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Photographs representing his face, subjects, moods and vision.
The Sebald Pool on Flickr.



Analogue." "Inspired by the writings of W.G. Sebald and Arthur Conan Doyle and the early films of Peter Greenaway, Analogue attempts to re-imagine the sublime in the 19th century romantic landscape."



"A visual/verbal poem in memory of WG Sebald."



Sin contra, "without counting"



An architectural history class project in relation to "Topographical Stories" by David Leatherbarrow and "Austerlitz" by WG Sebald.




From the Sebald photo pool on Flickr:

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5 Comments

And so I shall! Thanks Roger!

Hi yi yi yi yi... AUSTERLITZ. A dreaming, unsmiling landscape, always in vivid motion, but never quite escaping itself.

Ebert: One great book.

Ebert: One great book.

Woops. Didn't mean not to specify that. You know what, though, I wish I could read German.

I finished reading Austerlitz in German and it was the most astonishing book I have read in a long long time. To give the metaphysics of history such an appealing literary form is quite an achievement.

Ebert: Rarely have a read such a gathering of sadness, human mystery and simple wonder at the world.

Lovely post - the closing pages of 'Austerlitz' made me feel like the ground had given way beneath me!

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