Literarischer #18Mai
„Sei ruhig, mein Herz. Der stille Abend deckt die kranken Sinne mit seinem Mantel zu.“
#WGSebald #DieRingeDesSaturn Geburt 1944
Literarischer #18Mai
„Sei ruhig, mein Herz. Der stille Abend deckt die kranken Sinne mit seinem Mantel zu.“
#WGSebald #DieRingeDesSaturn Geburt 1944
Today on Terrible Maps, I saw a map of a journey from Toledo to Athens through Milan, Lisbon, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Dublin, London, and Moscow. That would be an unusual journey in Europe, but the map was of Ohio, which has towns with all of those names. That reminded me
W.G. Sebald im Gespräch mit Michael Silverblatt (Bookworm)
W. G. Sebald in relation to our new century. In this conversation, Sebald describes the source of his rare prose tone and explores the invisible presence of the concentration camps in his work.
https://www.kcrw.com/shows/bookworm/stories/w-g-sebald
#bookworm #gesprach #horen #kcrwCom #literatur #michaelSilverblatt #wGSebald #wissen
AUSTERLITZ - bande annonce

Strange little article thst.
Plays games with the readers' attention, while flittering around the genocide which allowed whites to settle Australia.
There is truth which is too much to face up to on first encounter.
I have feared for some time that it will take severe consequences to jolt enough Americans out of their fancies.
The book linked has the Germans, about 10 years after the marching and rallying described above, slipping from their Nazi fancy into studied avoidance of considering the hell that had come for them after the marching and rallying.
I wonder what lies in America's future.
#WGSebald #Bookstadon #PostWWII #BombingCivilians
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2011/11/03/w-g-sebald-on-the-natural-history-of-destruction-luftkrieg-und-literatur-1999/
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died a figure twice that of all Ameri…
Literarischer #18Mai
„Ich bin leider ein von Grund auf unpraktischer, in ewigem Nachsinnen verfangener Mensch. Allesamt sind wir lebensuntüchtige Phantasten, die Kinder nicht anders als ich.“
#WGSebald #DieRingeDesSaturn Geburt 1944