'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century'The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia,from Lowestoft to Bungay,becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand,Thomas Browne,Swinburne and Conrad,to fishing fleets,skulls and silkworms,the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.'A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas... Formally dexterous,fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel),and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears'Teju Cole,Guardian
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099448921Number of pages: 320Weight: 223 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
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A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas. Framed around the narrator's long walks in East Anglia,Sebald shows how one man looks aslant at historical atrocity. Formally dexterous,fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel),and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tearsA great,strange and moving workThe finest book of long-distance mental travel that I've ever readA desperate intensity of feeling is thrillingly counterpoised by the workings of a wonderfully learned and rigorous mindSebald is surely a major European author...he reaches the heights of epiphanic beauty only encountered normally in the likes of Proust
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