«Quem não possui memória tem muito mais probabilidades de viver uma vida feliz.»
W. G. Sebald (1944-2001)
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Praise for W. G. SEBALD AND AUSTERLITZ “With untraceable swiftness and assurance, W. G. Sebald’s writing conjures from the details and sequences of daily life, and their circumstances and encounters, from apparent chance and its unsounded calculus, the dimension of dream and a sense of the depth of time that makes his books, one by one, indispensable. He evokes at once the minutiae and the vastness of individual existence, the inconsolable sorrow of history and the scintillating beauty of the moment and its ground of memory. Each book seems to be something that surely was impossible, and each (upon every re-reading) is unique and astonishing.” —W. S. MERWIN
Praise for
W. G. SEBALD AND AUSTERLITZ
“With untraceable swiftness and assurance, W. G. Sebald’s writing conjures
from the details and sequences of daily life, and their circumstances and
encounters, from apparent chance and its unsounded calculus, the dimension of dream and a sense of the depth of time that makes his books, one by one, indispensable. He evokes at once the minutiae and the vastness of individual existence, the inconsolable sorrow of history and the scintillating beauty of the moment and its ground of memory. Each book seems to be something that surely was impossible, and each (upon every re-reading) is unique and astonishing.”
—W. S. MERWIN