Author: W. G. Sebald
Cited by
- Justin Cartwright (1)
- IN: Lion Heart (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: If we view ourselves from a great height it is frightening to realise how little we know about our species, our purpose and our end.
FROM: The Rings of Saturn, (1995), Novel, Germany
- Zia Haider Rahman (1)
- IN: In the Light of What We Know (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Our concern with history, so Hilary's thesis ran, is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.
FROM: Austerlitz, (2001), Novel, Germany
- Jaspreet Singh (1)
- IN: Helium (2013) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
FROM: Vertigo, (1990), Novel, Germany