false 5952994 363264 88448 0812972325 9780812972320 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171134769m/88448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88448.Campo_Santo 3.94 70 –The Washington Post Book World

This final collection of essays by W. G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work–the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts. Some of these pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present, examining, among other things, the island’s formative effect on its most famous citizen, Napoleon. In others, Sebald examines how the works of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll reveal “the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives” of postwar Germans; how Kafka echoes Sebald’s own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings; and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world.
Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, Campo Santo confirms Sebald’s status as one of the great modern writers who divined and expressed the invisible connections that determine our lives.]]> 14483 4.19 3845 427 5 0 false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Sep 09 14:15:01 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 14:16:50 -0700 2007