Places seem to me to have some kind of memory…– W. G. Sebald
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can’t forget, you embroider… The further you
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution – the incarceration and systematic extermination
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on
Although I hold a German passport, I feel very much alienated when I’m there.
My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.
Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart… The culture
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.
My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army as
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