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The Shape of a Book 21 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
Occasionally there comes a book that leaves very little trace of itself behind as I read it. The arc of the text feels shapeless and I don’t remember what I read the day before, and so I am constantl...
Five Movements in Praise 15 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
Detail of Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota Contemplating a Painting, attributed to Nainsukh of Guler, c. 1748 This is how things are placed next to each other now, without warning, geographies and times...
Sebald’s Tripp 9 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
A Place in the Country feels more intimately autobiographical than any other book by Sebald. As I have suggested in my previous posts on Sebald’s essays on Johann Peter Hebel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ...
Sebald’s Keller 8 Aug 2013 | 02:24 am
“In no other literary work of the nineteenth century can the developments which have determined our lives even down to the present day be traced as clearly as in that of Gottfried Keller.” So begins ...
Photography and Literature Film Series 4 Aug 2013 | 07:18 am
In conjunction with their forthcoming issue # 75 on ”Photography and Literature,” Source Photographic Review is putting up seven related films on their website – one every Friday from August 9 throug...
Sebald’s Walser 3 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
The fifth essay in A Place in the Country, Jo Catling’s new translation of W.G. Sebald’s Logis in einem Landhaus, is devoted to a ”singular, enigmatic figure,” German-speaking Swiss writer Robert Wals...
Sebald’s Mörike 22 Jul 2013 | 12:57 am
Reading the third essay in W.G. Sebald’s A Place in the Country, “Why I grieve I do not know: A memento of Mörike,” one gets the distinct sense that Sebald is struggling to say something kind about Ed...
Sebald Reading Austerlitz (Video) 19 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
Yesterday, New York’s 92nd Street Y posted on YouTube a video of W.G. Sebald’s public appearance there on October 15, 2001. It’s a really remarkable must-see document and, I believe, the only video o...
Photography-Embedded Literature 2000-2004: Bibliography 16 Jul 2013 | 08:14 am
Here is my bibliography of works of fiction and poetry published in the years 2000-2004 containing embedded photographs. You can see all of my other annual lists here. I am always updating these li...
Sebald’s Rousseau 11 Jul 2013 | 01:43 am
Like other places of personal importance for him, W.G. Sebald first saw the Île Saint-Pierre from above, during a hike in 1965. But it wasn’t until 1996 that he finally visited the small island in th...
