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The Perfect Present for Sebald Readers

by Terry on December 3, 2008

Looking for something to buy a W.G. Sebald reader for the holidays?

Go to Amazon.de, and do a search for Teddy Bear mit Ich liebe Sebald to see if this wonderful teddy bear is still available for a mere 11.99 Euros.

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From: W.G. Sebald
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  1. Ivo Kievenaar #

    I just bought: Adam Zagajewski / Eternal enemies, a marvelous book of poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. One of the poems is dedicated to W.G. Sebald:

    OUR WORLD
    In memoriam W.G. Sebald

    I never met him, I only knew
    his books and the odd photos, as if
    purchased in a secondhand shop, and human
    fates discovered secondhand,
    and a voice quietly narrating,
    a gaze that caught so much,
    a gaze turned back,
    avoiding neither fear
    nor rapture;
    and our world in his prose,
    our world, so calm – but
    full of crimes perfectly forgotten,
    even in lovely towns
    on the coast of one sea or another,
    our world full of empty churches,
    rutted with railroad tracks, scars
    of ancient trenches, highways,
    cleft by uncertainty, our blind world
    smaller now by you.

    (Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh)

    February 8, 2009
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