tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585898215305748248.post5850943547759457911..comments2023-10-01T00:16:36.045+13:00Comments on Opposable thumb: AusterlitzUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585898215305748248.post-4733261659788130142009-06-29T21:49:52.336+12:002009-06-29T21:49:52.336+12:00Sebald is inimitable - which is not to say that he...Sebald is inimitable - which is not to say that he lacks imitators. The British poet, Lavinia Greenlaw, remarked recently that Sebald displayed "a connoisseurial approach towards the idea of ruin" that she found disturbing. I admire Sebald's work very much - especially <i>The Rings of Saturn</i> - but I can see exactly what she means.Tim Uppertonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585898215305748248.post-44751657988133682372009-06-25T08:57:14.397+12:002009-06-25T08:57:14.397+12:00The entire human race? "we"?
I do recoi...The entire human race? "we"?<br /><br />I do recoil a bit when Europeans or descendants of Europeans make the Holocaust humanity's crime, as if the Chinese or the Indians or the Maori had anything whatsoever to do with it and with the logic that produced it. Although, as a person of the Italian persuasion, I suppose I should enjoy the convenience of having the guilt deflected to vague institutions like "civilisation", or "modernity". <br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I see how it was people who did it, so it did redefine what being a person can mean. But making it a cosmic crime as opposed to a historically and culturally specific event can actually impair its understanding.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.com