W.G. Sebald
Born
in Wertach, Germany
May 18, 1944
Died
December 14, 2001
Genre
Influences
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Austerlitz
by
108 editions
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published
2001
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The Rings of Saturn
49 editions
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published
1995
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The Emigrants
81 editions
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published
1992
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Vertigo
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61 editions
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published
1990
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On the Natural History of Destruction
50 editions
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published
1999
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After Nature
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31 editions
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published
1988
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Campo Santo
14 editions
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published
2003
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A Place in the Country
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26 editions
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published
1998
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Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
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15 editions
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published
2008
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Unrecounted
by
10 editions
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published
2003
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“It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.”
― Austerlitz
― Austerlitz
“But the fact is that writing is the only way in which I am able to cope with the memories which overwhelm me so frequently and so unexpectedly. If they remained locked away, they would become heavier and heavier as time went on, so that in the end I would succumb under their mounting weight. Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life. How often this has caused me to feel that my memories, and the labours expended in writing them down are all part of the same humiliating and, at bottom, contemptible business! And yet, what would we be without memory? We would not be capable of ordering even the simplest thoughts, the most sensitive heart would lose the ability to show affection, our existence would be a mere neverending chain of meaningless moments, and there would not be the faintest trace of a past. How wretched this life of ours is!--so full of false conceits, so futile, that it is little more than the shadow of the chimeras loosed by memory. My sense of estrangement is becoming more and more dreadful.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
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