W. G. Sebald’s “Campo Santo”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.18.05 | 5:50 PM ET
The new book, published three years after the writer’s death, is a collection of literary essays and travel writing. Writes Ruth Franklin in Slate: “In [the book’s] first four pieces, Sebald confines his wanderings to the Corsican landscape, conducting an unfinished walking tour that—as always with his travel writing—is less about the places he visits than the meditations they inspire, which here include everything from Corsican burial customs to the family history of Napoleon. But the remainder of the book shows Sebald on the prowl through the entire literary world, gathering affinities among the writers who speak to him most keenly.” Those writers include Nabokov and travel writer Bruce Chatwin.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
