I loved the part about Sebald the 'trickster.' He wasn't above fooling the reader. Sebald pulls you in with his prose. The photos can lie, and like a child before a magician, readers fall for the ruse. As Angier says, he very shrewdly warns the reader of Max Ferber in The Emigrants about the book burning in Wurzburg not to posit too much faith in photographs--they are easily altered. Nabakov, in Speak, Memory, writes, " "I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception." Maybe Sebald was channeling Nabokov...
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A very interesting interview.
Great interview. Thanks for sharing. Will certainly buy the book 🙂
So glad my feed decided to show me this fantastic interview. I need to find time for the whole of Angier's "Speak, Silence."
I loved the part about Sebald the 'trickster.' He wasn't above fooling the reader. Sebald pulls you in with his prose. The photos can lie, and like a child before a magician, readers fall for the ruse. As Angier says, he very shrewdly warns the reader of Max Ferber in The Emigrants about the book burning in Wurzburg not to posit too much faith in photographs--they are easily altered. Nabakov, in Speak, Memory, writes, " "I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception." Maybe Sebald was channeling Nabokov...
How did Sebald come to trust Carole Angier?