Saturday, March 14, 2009

Real author

The world of contemporary fiction lost one of its brightest luminaries with the passing of W.G. Sebald in 2001. I've been thinking of Sebald of late - partly because I've been troubled by the quality of the prose which have been published, well, since his death. Here's to a real author - one who understood the importance of the intersections between fiction and history, between memory and identity. Austerlitz, The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants: these are - without a doubt - canonical works.

Gone, but not forgotten

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