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Arts feature

From haunted to haunter: the afterlife of W.G. Sebald

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

East Anglia, the rump of the British Isles, has inspired a disproportionate number of writers: Robert Macfarlane, Daisy Johnson, Mark Cocker, Sarah Perry, to name but a few. Towering over them all is the ghost of a soft-spoken man with a shoe-brush moustache and sardonic eyes. Eighteen years after his death, W.G.

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