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W.G. Sebald taught his nal ction workshopat the University o East Anglia during theautumn o 2001. In the literary world he wasrapidly gaining renown: there had been thesccs dsm o his rst three books, andthen the publication oAs earlier that

year. In the classroom where David Lambertand I were two o sixteen students Sebald wasunassuming, almost shy, and asked that we callhim Max. When discussing students work hewas anecdotal and associative, more storytellerthan technician. He had weary eyes that made

it tempting to identiy him with the melancholynarrators o his books, but he also had a gentleamiability and wry sense o humour. We were inhis thrall. He died three days ater the nal class.

As ar as Im aware, nobody that termrecorded Maxs words systematically. However,in the wake o his death, David and I oundourselves returning to our notes, where wedwritten down many o Maxs remarks. Thesewe gleaned and shared with our classmates. Still,I wish wed been more diligent, more complete.The comments recorded here represent only asmall portion o Maxs contribution to the class.

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, m ccg s) d mss s dvy.

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T cc ms d ws dgdw m x d m s qyy s s s wg:

s m m ? I sdm. I s dd, sd. Hv ys y m cmdy sws -vs? sd. I d . Ty smy dsc, sd, sc-g wd s gs mcc. my dsc.

Images O ms sg s xs w s s s mgs. T

g s cs, m The Emigrants Austerlitz, w sd y x ms,w ws c cc d -gs, scds d ws cgs,d s s d mgs, gw gs y x ms,s sc mc dscssy ds, ccs d, m cy, c-dmcs. (T dv sdy d s yss ccv Is Iqy, ws c Searching orSebalds 632 g-m gs.)

O xs d, w -sd wg ws d, vy gm s gs w dscv-d. F m, s g dm s

g cmd mg scm s gs d wg x ccmy m. dy, s dd g cmm sc jc.

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w jg m. Adx ms mmd I sc Iws d m m, d Ivwys ccd sy gs; s g d mmy m.

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y sggs sd csss s mg w wd d mg, s

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ms dy sc.

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H g s: sd P Lc d B w-d, ms s g Rs-s 176: I m, sgy,cs s m wd, sd.

O m s, ms. Avyd, d s, d

w, cy , cd. I s vyg, s s ss . Ts smg ssm d s-cd s m sc d m d.

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s w mg md mm x wg wsw cs yd, s msc w d vd: Four Sea Interludes:

wy Bjm B; Ich bin derWelt abhanden gekommen y sv ; scd mvm Symphony No. 1,s y ; d y cgsStrauss Transcriptions.

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y Ug, Pgd c dscd s, vy mc scs.Ad I d Im Im c gs. I d mgs ss.

x dd d ccd wy m Rcy s,d cs w y w g-g -d d.

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d gd d s sys vs mdy dssd. AsA Lw cs m s -vw w x:

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s sd m ws c dc, d sd sw xc dmgd c -wg s ms mg EsAg cs w sgysd v d g sg s. (Tg wgs, I wd I dm s cvs-.)

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c:

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d dd m . T smy w w y w-g s, s d s dd, d I s ( ws ms gs s)xs d m wms m d dds cd wc I d gcg s d y.

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cc Unrecounted, wc s c- w xs ds d scsc dys, s P T. Ts s ws dd, c Hmg, ws my w w:

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cdg ws.

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gms, ccs d cdcs cs cy.

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d s y wc sms g d xs g xc:

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js s w v gdy dsy-g w ws g s.

v w xcy

vm cm cg, s cgc sc my scsss xs w.

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xc mAusterlitz wssd sPc Pg N. 28 200.

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Ire li Sh x d, s I v Tmsd Qcy, s ss dgsss,

s sc s cs, csm- mg d s ws ssc.

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w s x m s gg s w sm s d. I s sc s vys ws , Lsy Bs Bg, ws w sgdd dd c, vmg, c c cs m cy Hs, gdBs, Bggs m dcw wc y jy sy my.

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my dm, w s cy,sd css-sc my .

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that writ attempt translation. Sir John Denham

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gd dw w s, sd syg cd j sxgs (Just whose team are you on, son?).

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s wg w s d s scd ds ss,d wdy sscd w wds

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m y s wd ! Twc y ss s: Tdy mv s y d wsd.

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Egs, cs vy ss wys js g m y w w y g.

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yms. Giha.Osd my w s g

d w s wdg. I d cc-sy sg sscgg d y Iv d mc d, vds w. msy s g m s js s my , cg d w cmg dvgs md cv sc dwdg wy s ds.

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d y d s ssd Fc, ms Td, Ys, I d s smg g. I I w cscsywg mv sc x

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Anthea Bell has translated the Asterix books,Freud, Sebald and countless other authors. Herstudy has a shel to hold her thick reerencebooks and a shel or the works o her ather,

Adrian Bell, who chronicled the Suolk coun-

tryside and compiledT Tms crossword.It is also is the resting place or a considerableamount o ribbons or excellence in cat breed-ing. She used to name her new cats aterShakespearian characters, and got through most,though she decided she would not oer up a petwith the name Lady Macbeth.

When I asked her about the solitude o thejob she looked at me or a moment through herlarge glasses beore oering a shrug and a loudlaugh. It was nothing new to her, this writinglie. She watched her ather go, without ail,

into his study at 9 a.m. to clack away untilmidday. In the aternoon he cycled the backlanes o Suolk, reeing his mind to think o thenext days crossword clues.

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s. I d Zwg. Hs dc s. H ssy cd d c s yg sc w y g m

y xcy ws gg ? Ad cs s dd, s I cg m d s m. I d , I d d, d I vsd vs. Fy I d dg y Egs. A s-s g d dy d

ds s. Y v c w w m.

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d d s . I wd d c d I wd sd md w I ws dg x c wd m cmms d sggs-s d sd my vs c c m.

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m c, d y d w w m ym? I sd,I g. I w s ssd I g vy vy dcy d v d. I dx I d s d ws msd. H d m m

d d , wc I dd w.

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s-cd s s y mygsmg s cmg smgs . Is Fc cg scs dyg

d ss. I Egs sggss m s smg ss y d.

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O cs y v w s sc

d xsss ccscs. Evy m I sd ws sm cc syg g s cgd m Fc vs. Tw ssc g ws cg q . Y c jsy , y v, y syg y g s wc s m m g .

I sd d s dy j dd s scy d g c. I d d css-

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c md wg sm wy.T m s s gs

m sy vs cd. T svs vg gs sm g m g-y-d,d xdd c

js. Asx s Rm g-

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Do you belong to a certain school o thought?T w scs g w.T md sc g s s sd vs. Y sd w s wg . I m d d ss vw. I vs s d wd s s w Egs s c. I ws sd c gv y sc sm s-

gd y c ygcs. I ws sd gv sc w ds vs s.I sd, I c d s y. I smy

d g w w ds vss.

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Everyday Lie, d my c mws m vd Egs s-cy s s s

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Theres a benet in being a little inaccurate?I s s g.T s wys dcmy, sd .

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Tran Slat orS Sha re sm g s-dsy s ms , yv d d . Ty cssy g w, w s sy vs, s y d

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cs cv, wc s wy, s s g cs,

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Howard Goldblatt has inhabited the oten mys-tiying world o Chinese literary translation ormore than 25 years, requently in collaborationwith his wie, Sylvia Li-Chun Lin. I recentlyworked with Howard on a collection o short

stories I as editor, he as translator and wasconsistently impressed with his det approachto the idiosyncrasies o Chinese writing; orinstance the absence o personal pronouns, or theindierence between the singular and the plural.On this day, however, he was at times rustratedwhen pressed to explore these nuances. I had thedistinct impression that, or Howard, talkingabout translating Chinese was just as complexand ull o discrepancies as translating it.

His translations more than 30 novels and

short story collections to date include seminalwork by Mo Yan, Wang Anyi and the Tai-wanese author Chu Tien Wen. Last year,his translation o the novel Tm by

Jiang Rong won the Man Asia Literary Prize.Howard splits his time between the RockyMountains o Colorado and Notre Dame Uni-versity, where he is Director o the Centre or

Asian Studies. He spoke to me on the telephonerom his home in South Bend, Indiana.

Jakob von Baeyer

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Because o my work, I have recently been orcedto move rom a small and beautiul village in theLake District to the centre o Glasgow. Ever sinceI was a child, I have had a deep hatred o city lie

I can nd in it none o the beauty that I can seein the countryside. I cant understand why somepeople say they love big cities like London, Paris,New York. Do you have any suggestions on howone might learn to be happy in a city?

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glossiy my lie? Do you ever eel this? Whatcan I do about this eeling?

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They were linked to the great cultural gureso the time but wrapped tightly in each other.Their relationship was tempestuous and unlike-ly, ending in a European divorce beore being

given lie again on a new continent while every-thing their collaborations embodied in WeimarGermany burnt away. He was bald, bespecta-cled and could spend all day composing alone ina room, while she elt most alive ater steppingon to the stage. Because o his travels, manyo Lotte Lenyas letters were lost on the roadto Amsterdam or Paris or New York. Lenya

stashed Kurt Weills responses and they surviveto show the composers grand passions, his pettycomplaints and, even better, the joy that camewith the convergence o his music and her voice.

For me all o you is contained within this sound;everything else is only a part o you; and when Ienvelop mysel in your voice, then you are withme in every way.

Their collected letters brim with declarations,gossip and insights into the lives o their con-temporaries, but as a composer states his intentby choosing a key, their relationship was madeunique by its own private language the key oWeill and Lenya. The collection o letters gath-ered by Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke,published under the title Lw (Y Lv), contains an appendix listingWeill and Lenyas pet names and signatures. Allthe themes o their lie together are here in mini-ature. Over the years, through the tumult andthe aairs, Weill and Lenya loved each other ina broad and complicated way, which is perhapswhy little baldy and little ass, and amous

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Last October, a ew weeks beore J.M.G. LeClzio was awarded the Nobel Prize in Litera-ture, the Nw Y printed one o his short

stories entitled The Boy Who Had Never SeenThe Sea, which ollowed this particular boyuntil he did. Le Clzios debut novel, publishedorty-our years beore, also eatures a youngman who goes to live alone near the sea. The

short story is elegaic while T Igis blunt and conrontational, and its protagonist,

Adam Pollo, is less interested in the lie-givingproperties o the ocean and more worried about

the shiting nature o his own identity. Hesa brutal, troubled man and Le Clzio bringshim to lie in a swirl o body odour and cigarette

smoke. Why is he on the coast? Has Pollodeserted the army or just been let out o aninsane asylum, and, more importantly, willhe be able to hold onto his mind? The questionis especially pertinent in the ollowing passage,where Pollo meets the other resident o his tem-porary accommodation in an abandoned seasidevilla.

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