An eclectic biography.
Reviews: Sebaldian
Book review: ‘Speak, Silence’ by Carole Angier
In search of W.G. Sebald.
Book review: ‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood
A haunting prose-poem (I think).
Book review: ‘Of Walking in Ice’ by Werner Herzog
A quest to save a friend.
Book review: ‘River’ by Esther Kinsky
File under Sebaldian.
Book review: ‘W.G. Sebald’ by Uwe Schütte
The writer and his work.
Book review: ‘Heligoland’ by Jan Rüger
Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea.
A Walk at the Edge of the World
by Nicholas Bone, Sans façon and Ian Cameron The script of a play about walking. Stense bought me this book, which is the script to a play she saw. She thought I'd like it. I did, very much indeed. As I wrote to Stense, after reading the script twice, the play is clearly heavily influenced… Continue reading A Walk at the Edge of the World
Sebald's Vision
by Carol Jacobs High-brow analysis of the enigmatic author's oeuvre. This is a very high-brow book. I will eagerly read anything that might assist me in my ongoing efforts to get my head around the unclassifiable wonderfulness of W.G. Sebald's published works. Carol Jacobs certainly knows her onions. She has spotted all manner of running… Continue reading Sebald's Vision
Book review: ‘M Train’ by Patti Smith
A fascinating exercise in ‘writing about nothing’.