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Radio 3,08 Dec 2011,15 mins

Series Looking and Looking Away

Sebald the Poet

The Essay

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Personal reflections on different aspects of the life, work and influence of WG Sebald by those who knew him, ten years after his death. WG "Max" Sebald's literary career was at its height when he died in a car crash in December 2001, shortly after the publication of his masterpiece Austerlitz. Poet George Szirtes reflects on the poetry of WG Sebald.

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