I haven’t read it but it’s been on my list for a while. I also assumed he was Jewish. You might also like the graphic novel memoir “belonging” by Nora krug -- she goes through her family archives and explores how both her grandfathers were Nazis
I read Austerlitz last December and liked it a lot - after having read The Rings many times. The blurring of narrator and subject is a powerful device, to describe the universal experience of loss and dislocation. Sebald does this a lot in The Rings, where he describes historical characters and at times you don't know if it's them or Sebald talking - the tale weaves history & memory into a universal tale about destruction of civilisations (cultures, ways of life) and to some extent nature.
I haven’t read it but it’s been on my list for a while. I also assumed he was Jewish. You might also like the graphic novel memoir “belonging” by Nora krug -- she goes through her family archives and explores how both her grandfathers were Nazis
I read Austerlitz last December and liked it a lot - after having read The Rings many times. The blurring of narrator and subject is a powerful device, to describe the universal experience of loss and dislocation. Sebald does this a lot in The Rings, where he describes historical characters and at times you don't know if it's them or Sebald talking - the tale weaves history & memory into a universal tale about destruction of civilisations (cultures, ways of life) and to some extent nature.