[HN Gopher] No Way Home
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       No Way Home
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-02-08 16:04 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | frereubu wrote:
       | A different take from John Banville (I haven't read it so can't
       | offer an opinion one way or the other):
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       | 'It affords a reviewer no pleasure to be harsh on this book,
       | which Jo Catling frankly declares was "a labour of love".
       | However, to present in the guise of a volume of mainstream essays
       | the spade-work left over from a life of academic toil can only
       | diminish the posthumous reputation of a writer who, in books such
       | as The Rings of Saturn and the superb Austerlitz, showed himself
       | to be one of the last masters from the great age of
       | Mitteleuropean high literature that is now drawing to a close, in
       | its own silent catastrophe.'
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       | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/07/silent-catastr...
        
       | peterldowns wrote:
       | Strongly recommend Rings of Saturn, and also A Place In The
       | Country. Sebald was a genius, full-stop.
        
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