W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Modern Library, 2001).
Also from Austerlitz
Austerlitz on time : Marks on time : Language as a city : Objects in windows
Sunday, April 15, 2018
“Varied and impenetrable”
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My experience lacks the tactile pleasure and geographical exotica described here, but man, can I go down the rabbit hole given unlimited time and a browser pointed at Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteYep. It makes me think of the pre-Internet world of academic scholarship, tracking down every last possibly relevant item. Or, of a library run by Borges.
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