My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army. W. G. Sebald Read Quote
I cannot get over the fact that I was born in 1944. I want to find out as much as I can about that year. W. G. Sebald Read Quote
My texts are written like palimpsests. They are written over and over again, until I feel that a kind of metaphysical meaning can be read through the writing. W. G. Sebald Read Quote
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to – a notion so universal, it’s enscribed in all religions. If you didn’t, they might exact revenge upon the living. W. G. Sebald Read Quote
