A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.
Writing tagged: ‘W.G. Sebald’
The seahorse and the pelican
How a passage from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn might give a clue to some family history.
Venice: a model for car-free living?
It is entirely possible, it turns out, for a city to function without cars and vans and lorries. Who would have thought it? But is it practical?
Sebald’s TV listing
When you enter into Sebald’s universe, it seems to me, you have to play along.
What I read in 2014
I read 36 books in 2014. This shows an uncharacteristic degree of consistency on my behalf.
The Thomas Browne Affair
On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.
The power of the anecdote
On the effectiveness of anecdotes and understatement in conveying catastrophic events.
Books by or about W. G. Sebald
A list of Sebald-related books reviewed on this site.