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literatura sautée
literatura sautée rated it 9 years ago
Cztery opowiadania złożone z oszczędnych, po niemiecku drobiazgowych zdań, w których właściwych znaczeń opowiadanych historii trzeba się domyślać na podstawie dyskretnych aluzji. Warto jednak przyjrzeć im się z bliska, tak jak przedrukowanym w książce rysunkom i fotografiom, bo kryją w sobie opowieś...
philoSophie
philoSophie rated it 9 years ago
Πρόκειται για ένα έργο που αναπτύσσεται με τη μέθοδο ροής συνείδησης, με αποτέλεσμα η αφήγηση να δομείται με σπονδυλωτό τρόπο, ενώ το ένα συμβάν ανακαλεί στη μνήμη του ήρωα ένα άλλο, προσδίδοντας, έτσι, μια αλληλουχία στα κεφάλαια, τα οποία φαινομενικά δε συνδέονται μεταξύ τους. Η πρόζα του Sebald θ...
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it 10 years ago
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 ...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 11 years ago
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/72908914865/austerlitz-by-w-g-sebaldI love the way Max Sebald writes. His language is rich and warm, quite sophisticated, but still accessible. I religiously claim W.G. Sebald as the master of all dream-state authorship. I have never read anyone so gifted at lulling ...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 11 years ago
Nothing much to say about this book other than Sebald's own wish to remembered for his prose. These bits were mostly just pen put to paper, a recording of words more reportage than anything resembling fine poetry.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: winter-20122013, radio-3, fradio, holocaust-genocide Read from December 16 to 17, 2012 Drama on 3: AusterlitzWG Sebald's novel about remembering the Holocaust, dramatised by Michael Butt. A stranger in the Antwerp station confides an unsettling story of vanished identity.Trivia; Fred...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 12 years ago
Though I could not engage myself as vibrantly as I did in reading the first two Sebald novel/memoir/travelogues I did recognize its uniqueness and sophistication not found too often elsewhere. I love the way Sebald wrote and look forward to reading Austerlitz sometime in the very near future. As I a...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 12 years ago
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 resp...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 12 years ago
I have become a bit of a Michael Hamburger fan now because of his translations of Sebald's poems collected here and his wonderful essay on both W.G. Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp found within these same pages. I came into this book carefully and I had some experienced doubt as to what I was getting mys...
M Sarki
M Sarki rated it 12 years ago
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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