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WG Sebald film takes journey to cliff's edge
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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He was one of those surname-only authors whose works it seemed everyone else had read or else he would crop up stuffily in the footnotes of a certain sort of book. So until I heard Will Self praising his work on the Today programme, he was simply a
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Patience (After Sebald) – review
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Grant Gee's documentary Patience (After Sebald) In the summer of 1992, the author WG Sebald , "irradiated by melancholy", set off on a physical and philosophical wander through the Suffolk countryside a route that he later re-traced in his landmark
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Open City, By Teju Cole
Lagos :: Nigeria | over 1 year ago
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A young Nigerian psychiatrist wanders through Manhattan, "this strangest of islands". He meets, and hears the stories of, other migrant New Yorkers. He reflects on his African background and revisits a disorienting spell in Brussels. And he digresses
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Patience (After Sebald) (15)
Suffolk :: VA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The death of a great stage actor is a reminder that alone among art forms theatre is the most epheme... Just a few days after Salman Rushdie was excluded from the Jaipur Literature Festival because of an ... Suggested Topics The German expatriate W G
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Saturn calling: the sounds of Leyland James Kirby
Stockport :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Composer Leyland James Kirby. " The book is very ghost-like," says Leyland James Kirby . "So the music is ghost-like too...This seems a strange thing for a composer to say of his music, but then Kirby is talking about the soundtrack he has written
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Film remembers 'exceptional' Sebald
London :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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The sounds of footsteps from a lone dog walker are carried by occasional gusts of wind that flatten the overgrown grass fields set out before the beach begins...It is an area Sebald chose as an emblem for "continual destruction," says Grant Gee, a
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Somalia: 'If Nation Fails, It Will Fail Like a Catherine Wheel'
Mogadishu :: Somalia | over 1 year ago
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Ledgard is currently the East Africa correspondent of The Economist and his most recent novel, Submergence, is set, substantially, in Somalia.
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Paperbacks of the year: Walking to Hollywood, By Will Self
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Suggested Topics The three essays collected in Walking to Hollywood are non-fictional travelogues that spiral slowly into abstraction, similar in many ways to the "psychogeography" columns on which Will Self collaborated with Ralph Steadman. But here
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Across The Land And The Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001, By WG Sebald, trans. Iain GalbraithSaturn's Moons: W G Sebald – A Handbook, Jo Catling and Richard Hibbitt (editors)
Norwich :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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As Jacques Austerlitz remarks towards the end of the book that bears his name, we "have appointments to keep in the past... and must go there in search of places and people who have some connection with us on the far side of time, so to speak"...On a
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Across the Land and the Water by WG Sebald – review
Manchester :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian Because WG Sebald published very few poems in his lifetime, because there has been no tremendous hurry to produce this book ( he died in 2001 ), and because his fame as a prose writer is now so well established, it
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