Sebald interview on Bookworm 

I‘ve listened to this interview so many times and each time I find something new and revealing. Just like Sebald‘s books themselves

This interviewer is also Sebald’s perfect reader.

This is a wonderful interview. So sad that Sebald died so relatively young. He had so much more to give. Rings of Saturn is possibly my favourite book of all time. Every time I read it, I pick up something new that I’d missed from prior readings. Some parts I feel I still have not taken in. Reading it is like wandering through a dream, some things clear, others pass by like air. I love the state his work puts me in. I could stay there forever.

Thank you so much for posting. The postwar conspiracy of silence had a lasting effect on my life. Incredible that he could write about things that our parents refused to talk about. Very moving. Tragic timing, days before the author's death, yet so fortunate to have this opportunity to learn from the author in person. Great interviewer as well.

" Austerliz" is a novel, I'll never forget. What an honor to hear Sebald on his influences. I'm deeply in your debt for posting. Thank you.

Very grateful to find this....well done for sharing this with us.

Thanks was looking for it

Many thanks for this. Excellent interview of a favourite, brilliant author.

Thank you for sharing. Many, many thanks.

thanks for sharing it

greatfull for posted this enterview❣

Five minute discussion on Thomas Bernhard, nice.

8 days before he died.

Thank you!!! I love his narrative melody in his texts. Never heard his voice before. Just read his literature.

Has anyone else experienced the feeling of somambulance that the presenter talks about around 04:54? He says that he feels like he has dremt the connections in Sebalds story and I thought I was the only one.

The focus of my doctoral dissertation was Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, read closely through a post-Jungian lens while also applying active imagination. This text also emerged as a means of unpacking Jung's ideas. His use of language is masterful, immersive, utterly unforgettable, and I might even say, life-changing. Thanks for posting this final interview. It is unfortunate that he left us so soon, but we have his amazing writings. I recommend them highly.

I recently finished 'Austerlitz'. The book affected me, in so many ways.

what an absolute legend

great interviewer imo

TWO REMARKABLY INTELLIGENT INDIVIDUALS...

SILVERBLATT HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST READ INDIVIDUALS- AT LEAST ON AMERICAN RADIO...

What a wonderful interviewer is silverblatt

This was a lonely walk - through all these landscapes -

A precise mind, to put it mildly. What he might have achieved, if only he could have lived longer!

Did he mean pericope, instead of periscope?

„Conspiracy of Silence“ - three words subsuming the thread of the threats of silencing throughout lifes’ lifetimes of speechless lonely bystanders, incapable or unwilling to even try to form a single word, a tone or just a sigh - just a low sigh. Breathe?

As interviewed by Ferris Bueller

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Holy shit he died a week after this?

it is interesting to me at least this notion of tenderness, listening, witness (real or fictional) the « exiled » writer, giving voice to those who are sidelined. silverblatt uses the same notion when interviewing John Berger - himself and anglo writer « self exiling » in the French Alps, Sebald self exiled in UK. i think i will explore this some more.