/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19126927]

this was an amazing read . thank you anon who recommended it 10 months ago. it really evoked emotions I havent felt in so long. Any recommendations like this?

[Anonymous No.19126932]

>>19126927
that was me and you’re welcome anon

it’s his best work but you might enjoy austerlitz and after nature as well. if you want someone who inspired him read robert walser

[Anonymous No.19126936]

>>19126927
This book has caught my eye for a future read
maybe check out W.G. Sebald's other books?
Bump

[Anonymous No.19126955]

>>19126932
My favorite after RoS is Vertigo.

[Anonymous No.19126958]

>>19126932
I was planning on reading austerlitz soon, anon. I feel the need to read through ring at least once more to really grasp its scope. Have a good night anon, take care.

[Anonymous No.19127318]

>>19126932
Not that was defiantly me

[Anonymous No.19127446]

>>19126927
reading it atm. nice atmospheric dives

[Anonymous No.19127450]

>>19126927
do not listen to >>19126932
in fact it was me who recommmended it and if you liked it you should also read Shoe Dog, it deals with a similar topic

[Anonymous No.19127472]

>>19126932
>that was me
>thinks he's the only anon on /lit/ shilling rings of saturn
lovely book though, i just got my gf to start it

[Anonymous No.19127500]

Obviously other Sebald is also great. Emigrants is much more subdivided into mini biorgraphies, Austerlitz is the most concentrated work on one character.

I'd also always recommend this book to Sebald fans. It's right on the line of non-fiction, the author reconstructing the memory of a dead girl from archive material, with a lot of her life still totally mysterious and a slow, sad process of exploration through post war Paris as he tries to find the traces left behind/

[Anonymous No.19127852]

>>19126927
If you truly liked Rings of Saturn, you should take a shot at Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. They aren't "similar", but I think you may have grown into your big boy literature pants and are ready for one of the finest works of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.19127896]

>>19126932
No, that was me. Stop taking credit. >>19127500
Also, please stop recommending hacks lime Modiano in a Sebald thread

[Anonymous No.19127911]

> They aren't "similar", but I think you may have grown into your big boy literature pants and are ready for one of the finest works of the 20th century

[Anonymous No.19127925]

Nonfiction like this is so good. Try The Peregrine by Baker or Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

[Anonymous No.19127926]

>>19126927
Try this.
Sebald-style travelogue about Holocaust and Red terror

[Anonymous No.19127935]

Handke is the polar opposite of Sebald - here memory reaches a successful retrieval full of romantic presence, rather than a delayed aporia as in Sebald

[Anonymous No.19127944]

>>19126927
Bryson's short history of private life. extremely comfy, similar explore and sidetrack structure

[Anonymous No.19127984]

>>19127935
Also, Sebald was very interested in Handke

>Jo Catlings catalog of Sebald’s library, published in Saturn’s Moons, demonstrates how much Sebald admired Handke; the catalog lists nineteen books by Handke and one book about him. Only a few German-language authors had more books in Sebald’s library, notably Goethe and Thomas Bernhard.

>The essay, on Handke’s 1986 book Die Wiederholung, was originally published in Sebald’s 1991 anthology of literary essays Unheimliche Heimat under the title Jenseits der Grenze.

>The novel meant much to Sebald, whose essay, somewhat uncharacteristically for him, contains unrestrained praise for what Handke achieved in this book:

>"What I want to do now is not to discuss the particularities of this distancing from Peter Handke – nor do I want to be tempted by the considerable task of sketching the psychology and sociology of the parasitic species that takes literature as its host; instead, I simply want to experimentally process a few things regarding the book Repetition, which upon first reading in 1986 made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me."

>"I don’t know if the forced relation between hard drudgery and airy magic, particularly significant for the literary art, has ever been more beautifully documented than in the pages of Repetition describing the roadmender and signpainter."

>Sebald wrote about Handke several times: first in an essay that appeared in Literatur und Kritik in 1975 and which is translated in Campo Santo as Strangeness, Integration, and Crisis: On Peter Handke’s Play Kaspar; and again in his 1985 anthology Die Beschreibung des Unglücks: Zur österreichischen Literatur von Stifter bis Handke, where he reprinted an essay on Handke originally published in 1983. He writes at some length about The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick in the latter essay

[Anonymous No.19127998]

>>19127935
Seconded

[Anonymous No.19128006]

>>19127896
Search Warrant is a great book. It's entirely true that Modiano churned out a book or two a year for a lifetime to pay the bills, but his best stuff is high tier.

If you look at his engagement with essentially the same historical material as Sebald he doesn't make as many scholarly allusions, not being an academic, but his moral position is more interesting because he directly engages with the sins of his father, and because the position of the small time crook under an autocratic regime is more complex than that of straight up Nazi victims.

[Anonymous No.19128043]

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Another dweeb who fears the greatest modernist work of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.19128058]

>>19128043
It was written by a woman so it can't be.

[Anonymous No.19128156]

>>00A62043-9D88-40C6-AE67-5EA2A41DB3D6.jpg
>Another dweeb who fears the greatest modernist work of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.19128264]

>>19128156
Newfag moment

[Anonymous No.19128306]

> Newfag moment