On the Unmoored Writing of WG Sebald Just finished reading a couple of books by WG Sebald that I presented my aged father for his 93rd birthday last year. Dad didn’t think much of them; in fact, he said they were boring and I am not sure he even read the second book fully. Oh, too bad, I thought and decided to read them anyway. I heard of Sebald a few years ago while reading a review of Teju Cole’s book, …

My thoughts on reading two books by WG Sebald that I presented my aged father last year and why they strike me as unmoored writing.

#WGSebald
#TheEmigrants
#TheRingsOfSaturn
#WanderingThoughts

10 Western Masterpieces That No One Remembers Today The Western genre has many masterpieces, but some worthy movies, like Lonely Are the Brave and The Emigrants, have sadly been forgotten by the masses.

Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #Western #AngelandtheBadman #TheEmigrants 10 Western Masterpieces That No One Remembers Today

We all rise by lifting others 🙏🌍

#gustafskarsgård #floki #vikings #flokivikings #cursed #merlin #arkipelagfilm #Theemigrants

📚 Finished the last 2 #books in Vilhelm Moberg's #TheEmigrantNovels - The Settlers & The Last Letter Home. Loved this entire series about a Swedish family homesteading in late 1800s Minnesota - Also the basis for two great films. Highly recommended
#readinglist #reading #mybookshelf #theemigrants

W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants (1992) - HLSI Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution

I’m teaching a weekend course (which already sounds off kilter) about W G Sebald’s brilliant #TheEmigrants in London on 23 and 24 November and there are still a few spaces.

hlsi.org.uk/courses/day-...