W. G. Sebald Quote

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.

The Rings of Saturn (ed. New Directions Publishing, 2016) - ISBN: 9780811221306

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors,...

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors,...

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors,...

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors,...