Campo Santo (Paperback)

from jonfaith

Rounding upwards, we should all push that direction towards the mute heavens. Yet our hearts remain shipwrecked. 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 Na...

from MSarki

I have totally changed my opinion of this book after reading it the second (this time in full) and after reading much other Sebald work and related material. By all means one of my very favorite writers now. This is an important collection of Sebald's and one I believe will get more legs as his r...

from jonfaith

Rounding upwards, we should all push that direction towards the mute heavens. Yet our hearts remain shipwrecked. 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 Na...

from MSarki

I liked what I read and skipped over what did not interest me. His speech at the end was cool as were his essays regarding Kafka.

from stillatim

Many good fiction writers, including some of my all time favorites, come across as fools when they can't hide their opinions and ideas behind the irony of literature. That is also the case of WGS. That said, some of the pieces here will be helpful for those seeking to understand his work, or who ...