[Virtue]Winfried·Sabard

1944Born in Germany, one thousand nine hundred and seventyHe has been teaching at the University of East Anglia since,2001Died in a car accident. He became a late bloomer, but his reputation rose after his death. He is considered a Nobel Prize winning writer. He has won the German Berlin literature award, Bremen literature award and Heinrich·Burr literature award, Heine literature award, etc., and his representative works include the settler, vertigo, Saturns ring, Austerlitz, etc

If you think modern literature is dead, try Sebald. The souls of masters like Kafka and Borges are living on Sebald. For Sebald, those“Grand question”Still exists, and he wants to answer it.——Wall Street Journal

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Most writers, even those who write, write what can be written; And very great ones, writing things that cant be written, such as Sebald.——New York Times

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Sebald belongs to a rare and elusive species……He is addictive, and once you are captured by his works, you dont want to put it down anymore.——The new Yorker

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One of the most exciting writers you can imagine. With originality that is difficult to be classified, it is an indispensable and important voice in our times. His works should be included in the ranks of Kafka, Borges and Proust.

Grief, beauty, strangeness, linger……Sebalds secret is that he regards himself as the voice of conscience that seems outdated in this era. He appeals for the dead and does not forget justice.

Very few writers can make people aware of the charm of language.——New York Times Book Review

Mourning the rising illusion

Mourn the order that collapsed in the dust

This is a funeral that has been held countless times

We will finally meet in the settlement

This book is another internationally renowned work of Sebald after immigration, recording the narrator“I”A hike across the east coast of England and what you see, think and feel on the journey. He traveled through ancient English manors, the houses of late writers, dilapidated seaside resorts and abandoned islands, recalling and telling all kinds of strange stories, such as Thomas·Browns head, Rembrandts anatomy class, the natural history of herring, Conrads trip, Chinas court train, the historical connection between sugar and art, the bombing of the Second World War, the model of the temple in Jerusalem, Nors sericulture, and so on.

This is a real literary journey. These events in the journey involve many fields such as literature, art, social history and natural science. Collective and personal memories are intertwined, pictures and texts are supplemented, and dreams and reality coexist. Readers are invited to enter the memory museum to observe survival and memory, change and forgetting with Sebald.

Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century The Times

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebalds own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas... Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldnt an essay be a novel?), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears Teju Cole, Guardian