When the author travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during his years in England. In this book, he reflects on six of the figures who shaped him as a person and as a writer, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Jan Peter Tripp.
Review
A fascinating volume that confirms Sebald as one of Europe's most mysterious and best-loved literary imaginations - Evening Standard
Sebald was in possession of the uncanny ability to make his own intellectual obsessions, immediately, compulsively his reader's - Observer
Shows a writer at his most inquisitive, gazing deeply under the surface of things - Financial Times
Irresistible . . . an intimate anatomy of the pathos, absurdity and perverse splendour of trying to find patterns in the chaos of the world - Independent
Erudite, truthful, moving - The Times
A beautiful book . . . about the crazy quest for meaning, and how we persist with it despite the shadows that slide towards us -- Joanna Kavenna - Spectator
About the Author
W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo and Silent Catastrophes among other publications.
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