In this final collection of sixteen essays by W. G. Sebald, one of
the most elegant and incisive authors of our time, all of his
trademark themes are contained-the power of memory and personal
history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the
presence of ghosts in places and artifacts.
Four pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica,
weaving elegiacally between past and present. In "A Little
Excursion to Ajaccio," Sebald visits the birthplace of Napoleon and
muses on the hints in his childhood home of a great man's future.
Inspired by an Italian cemetery, "Campo Santo" is a reverie on
death, ranging from the ambiguity of inscriptions to the size of
and adornment of gravestones to the blood-soaked legend of Saint
Julien.
Sebald also examines how the works of Gunter Grass and Heinrich
Boll reveal "the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional
lives" of postwar Germans, how Kafka echoes Sebald's own interest
in spirit presences among mortal beings, and how literature can be
an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world.
Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, "Campo
Santo confirms Sebald's place beside Proust and Nabokov, great
writers who perceive the invisible connections that determine our
lives.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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