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Loading... Campo Santo (2003)by W. G. Sebald
  
German Literature (192) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |  A posthumous collection of essays and reviews by the least German of post-war German writers, which when combined form a slightly uncomfortable mix in which you're never quite sure whether it's the writer of literature or the professional academic who is addressing you, but singly are all little gems that we need to keep and treasure. There are four chapters intended for a projected but sadly unfinished book about Corsica, there are a couple of essays about post-war German writing that formed the germ for his book On the natural history of destruction, there are book reviews, notes on Kafka, Nabokov, and Bruce Chatwin, there's an essay on the mackerel (riffing off a couple of paintings by his former classmate Jan Peter Tripp) and there are a few pieces of more or less autobiographical character. Lovely, clear thinking expressed in lovely, clear writing: something to dip into with pleasure even if you're only vaguely interested in the subjects he's writing about. (  ) thorold | Apr 8, 2020 | There’s a lazy longing. This work is part meditation on Corsica but larded with essays on the German Miracle and the stewardship of postwar literature. There are pieces on Kafka and Nabokov. Sebald plunges deep into memory, pocketing chance discoveries for our benefit. I realized just now I’ve been reading Sebald for twenty years. I don’t believe I’ve traveled with him. Reading earlier today about the wildfires around Berlin and the consequent explosion of buried munitions, I thought about Thomas Browne and WG Sebald. ( ) jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 | ) MSarki | Jun 5, 2013 | ) MSarki | Mar 31, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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"In this final collection of sixteen essays by W.G. Sebald, one of the most elegant and incisive authors of our time, all of his trademark themes are contained - the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts." "Four pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. In "A Little Excursion to Ajaccio," Sebald visits the birthplace of Napoleon and muses on the hints in his childhood home of a great man's future. Inspired by an Italian ceremony, "Campo Santo" is a reverie on death, ranging from the ambiguity of inscriptions to the size of gravestones to the blood-soaked legend of Saint Julien. Sebald also examines how the works of Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boll reveal "the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives" of postwar Germans, how Kafka echoes Sebald's own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings, and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world."--BOOK JACKET. No library descriptions found. |
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