tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post996270004450937829..comments2023-07-03T09:22:01.637+01:00Comments on tasting rhubarb: ThickJeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-37879515524497740142013-12-12T21:30:39.987+00:002013-12-12T21:30:39.987+00:00I really loved the film 'Patience' that I ...I really loved the film 'Patience' that I watched today, I've only read Rings of Saturn of all Sebald's books, and had forgotten some of it, though remembered other parts very clearly. The only problem with it was it was too short, I could have gone on watching it all day. Gentle was the word that came up again and again about him as a person, and it's perhaps that gentleness of that penetrates and illuminates the bleakness of his work; that and the amazing, endless, epistemological (sorry, I've only lately understood that word and now it seems indispensable) texture of it. I must read Austerlitz, and more of his writing.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-79184195755599017492013-12-07T17:51:36.279+00:002013-12-07T17:51:36.279+00:00Lilian, I hope you can get hold of Austerlitz - it...Lilian, I hope you can get hold of Austerlitz - its a gentle, unique, amazing book.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-63416381464340600682013-12-07T16:50:45.176+00:002013-12-07T16:50:45.176+00:00thanks for sharing this. The photos are haunting. ...thanks for sharing this. The photos are haunting. I want to read the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-30212471398101685842013-11-30T17:04:49.143+00:002013-11-30T17:04:49.143+00:00You'd both have loved this, I'm sure.You'd both have loved this, I'm sure.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-32983235557121305162013-11-29T11:16:53.379+00:002013-11-29T11:16:53.379+00:00I'm a huge admirer of Sebald's uniquely al...I'm a huge admirer of Sebald's uniquely allusive and elusive books. He has an extraordinary ability to show us things as if we're seeing them for the first time; ordinary things are familiar but strangely odd. I've always thought his world was a kind of Kafkaesque universe but much more benign — without the guilt, the trial, the verdict and the prison.<br /><br />These pictures add even more beautiful layers and connections.<br /> The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-53602388998308008602013-11-28T19:30:13.537+00:002013-11-28T19:30:13.537+00:00I would love to have seen these with you, Jean. I ...I would love to have seen these with you, Jean. I only read <i>Austerlitz</i> this past year, and was stunned by it.Bethhttp://www.cassandrapages.comnoreply@blogger.com