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Writer, translator, Selena fan. Author of THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER, available from @riverheadbooks.
Mar 27, 2018 12 tweets 6 min read
I spent the last 3 days walking 24 miles across East Anglia, following the footsteps of W.G. Sebald in THE RINGS OF SATURN. It was strange, sad, and wonderful, like living inside a dream about your favorite book. For fellow Sebald fans, here’s a thread with some of what I saw. Dunwich, once a thriving medieval port, has for centuries been crumbling into the sea. “If you look out from the cliff-top across the sea toward where the town must once have been,” wrote Sebald, you can sense the immense power of emptiness.” This remains unequivocally true.