read and going to read

[Malignd]

<<Maybe I shoulda axed this first, but is there some
kind of sequence I really should read Sebald in?  Are
any of his books interrelated? Thanks again ...>>

I wouldn't say they are interrelated, but at least
four are similar in style -- Austerlitz, The
Emigrants, Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo.

As to what order:  interesting you should ask.  When
they first began appearing in English, a number of
reviews misstated the order in which they were written
-- mistaking their translation order with their order
of composition -- and recommended reading them
according to a false chronology.

I don't think it matters, really.  I read the
Emigrants first.  It remains my slight favorite, but
that's more likely personal than any real comment on
their quality or the merits of any particular order. 
They're all very good.

Two more books have been published since:  After
Nature, which I think predates the four above, and On
the Natural History of Destruction, which (I think)
was the last thing he wrote before his death.




		
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