Comments on Writing from Max Sebald (Austerlitz)

[Katie-Ellen]

Compiled from his teaching days by students after his death. They really seem to have loved him. I particularly like the one about fiction needing a ghostly presence; an omniscience that opens up a different reality. What's the point in showing what is easily seen already? And I like the one where he says to write about the obscure, but not obscurely. (Pic is mine ...moon through laburnum.)

Max Sebald

 

[Marc Joan]

Nice post, nice picture. Re Sebald, I've only read the Rings of Saturn. I liked it - nice observations of East Anglia. From your link: "Lots of things resolve themselves just by being in the drawer a while." I could add "except socks".

 

[Jay Aitch]

Nice post, nice picture. Re Sebald, I've only read the Rings of Saturn. I liked it - nice observations of East Anglia. From your link: "Lots of things resolve themselves just by being in the drawer a while." I could add "except socks".

And odd socks, never.