Metaphysics - in fiction and essay

Having tonight finished my second collection of John Berger essays (this one, Photocopies), I found myself wishing that two authors were still with us: W.G. Sebald and Italo Calvino. To sit Berger at a table with Sebald (Austerlitz) and Calvino (Invisible Cities) would be a treat, indeed: for all three were masters, as I see it, of that fleeting, philosophical moment.