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Title: Masterpiece for the ages
Review: One of the great books of our time this is seemingly a random collection of thoughts, stories and rememberances, all written in Sebald's typical elliptical poetic almost hypnotic prose. Scratch under the surface however and you will find a deep philosophical meditation on memory and death and the beauty we can find in decay. In its own way this book reveals the sorry state of the novel by being simply a huge advance on that tired old form. It certainly doesnt feel like a novel but reads like a non fiction book but really it is beyond such defitnions of genre and rather it is a new catagory of literature upon which catchy names have yet to descend. This book along with Sebald's entire output will come to be seen as a key moment in the history of literature like that ushered by the publication of Ulysis.
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