![]() ![]() ![]() A book of Sebald’s poetry, “Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001,” was published last month by Penguin in the U.K. The anniversary year has been marked by a number of commemorative events, mainly in Europe. Susan Sontag, in a 2000 essay in the Times Literary Supplement, asked whether “literary greatness still possible.” She concluded that “one of the few answers available to English-language readers is the work of W. They combine memoir, fiction, travelogue, history, and biography in the crucible of his haunting prose style to create a strange new literary compound. His four prose fictions, “Vertigo,” “The Emigrants,” “The Rings of Saturn,” and “Austerlitz” are utterly unique. The weight of the loss to literature with his early death-of all the books he might have gone on to write-is counterbalanced only by the enigmatic pressure of the work he left behind. ![]()
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