W.G. Sebald Quotes

I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The Immediate Effects Of The So-called Hostilities. At The End Of The War I Was Just One Year Old, So I Can Hardly Have Any Impressions Of That Period Of Destruction Based On Personal Experience. Yet To This Day, When I See Photographs Or Documentary Films Dating From The War I Feel As If I Were Its Child, So To Speak, As If Those Horrors I Did Not Experience Cast A Shadow Over Me ... I See Pictures Merging Before My Mind's Eye - Paths Through The Fields, River Meadows, And Mountain Pastures Mingling With Images Of Destruction - And Oddly Enough, It Is The Latter, Not The Now Entirely Unreal Idylls Of My Early Childhood, That Make Me Feel Rather As If I Were Coming Home ...

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

W.G. Sebald Quotes: I Spent My Childhood And Youth On The Outskirts Of The Alps, In A Region That Was Largely Spared The

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