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“W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence–humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In <Campo Santo> Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency,... read more
First Sentence
In September last year, during a two-week holiday on the island of Corsica, I took a blue bus one day down the west coast to Ajaccio to spend a little time looking around the town, of which I knew nothing except that it was the birthplace of the Emperor Napoleon.
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Authors & Contributors
- Winfried Georg Sebald (Author)
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