by W.G. Sebald
I read this in translation,so I can't say for certainmaybe there is some metric by which it is poetry.Maybe the lines are not merelybroken because Sebald felt like it.Perhaps in German this is not prosaic --by which I am not calling Sebald's writingby any means quotidian butI saw no reason it could ...
If you enter the reading of this book as prose, and focus on not noticing the format, and just take in the words, it becomes obvious rather fast that this is a well-written piece of literature. I began by imagining all the words as verse collected instead into paragraphs, and by the last third it di...
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