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ΕΛ. ΟΥΩΚΤΕΛ: Κάποιος κριτικός σας περιέγραψε ώς κυνηγό φαντασμάτων. Εσείς βλέπετε έτσι τον εαυτό σας;
Β. ΓΚ. ΣΕΜΠΑΛΝΤ: Ναι. Νομίζω πως είναι αρκετά ακριβής η συγκεκριμένη περιγραφή.


Who you gonna call?

When memory is lacking, art will suffice; but art is a shorthand, not a substitute. Sebald aestheticizes history, but he never mistakes history for art.

And it turns out that as a small boy he was skiing in the same places where I went skiing. That somehow then sets you thinking. It's the reality of it. That he left traces in the snow on the same hills. These are different kinds of history lessons. They're not in the history books.

...you stand in a museum and you look at one of those wonderful pictures somebody did in the 16th or the 18th century You are taken out of time, and that is in a sense a form of redemption, if you can release yourself from the passage of time.

...we can only be set in motion by a fascination with life's mysteries...Between, or perhaps after, passion and glory lie the uncertain resource of curiosity, the recurring emotions of amazement and alarm. Any act of remembering will offer a feast.