Like his writing, it is just as littered with scratches, grooves and imperfections that make it both a leaping jump towards recreating perception and something deeply humanistic to experience. While the latter will be seeking to latch onto the their initial experience of film as it happens, the former will be no doubt be cast in the inescapable lure of the original book and its contexts.įor a writer who is at once both extremely modern in his style but shot through with the prism of a classical antiquarian, the 16mm film perhaps is the most aesthetically pleasing and apt model left to us when exploring the writing of W.G. Any film based on a book or around an author is always going to separate its viewers into two groups those who have read the original source material and those who have not. There are a number of reception possibilities attainable when watching Grant Gee’s 2011 essay film, Patience (After Sebald). He gives a thoughtful examination to the relationship between Sebald’s book and Gee’s film, especially the way in which the film and the book attempt to capture perception. Over at Celluloid Wicker Man, Adam Scovell has written about Grant Gee’s film Patience (After Sebald). Sebald’s book The Rings of Saturn gets some attention from non-literary disciplines in two recent posts elsewhere. Sebald & The Rings of Saturn – Links March 2014
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