Emigrants

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The Emigrants is a meditation on memory and loss Sebald recreates the lives of four exilesfive if you include his oblique selfportraitthrough their own accounts others recollections and pictures and found objects But he brings these men before our eyes only to make them fade away longing for extinction Two were eventual suicides another died in an asylum the fourth still lived under a poisonous canopy more than 40 years after his parents death in Nazi Germany
Sebalds own longing is for communion En route to Ithaca the real upstate New York location but also the symbolic one he comes to feel like a travelling companion of my neighbour in the next lane After the car speeds awayhe children pulling clownish faces out of the rear windowI felt deserted and desolate for a time Sebalds narrative is purposely mothholed butterflyridden actuallytheres a recurring Nabokovwithanet type an escape from the prisonhouse of realism According to the author his Uncle Ambross increasingly improbable tales were the result of an illness which causes lost memories to be replaced by fantastic inventions Luckily for us Sebald seems to have inherited the same syndrome