“Memory, the insidious gnawing of memory, which so often seems to destroy what it seeks to preserve.” Beyle, or Love is a Madness The book opens with an […]
German literature
The Emigrants
“Memory, the insistent revenant, like the dog that always finds its way back to its vomit.” — W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants Dr. Henry Selwyn The first section […]
German literature
The Rings of Saturn
“And since the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man is to tell him he is at the end of his nature, Browne scrutinizes that which […]
German literature
Austerlitz
“And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.” Part One The narrator recounts his encounters with Jacques Austerlitz, a man he first meets in the 1960s […]