tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10357644.post4078887575063777579..comments2023-10-31T09:13:32.835-04:00Comments on adolescent literacies: On reading and the joys of patient storytelling -- An incomplete essaylalithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750113281555099245noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10357644.post-72429343394194392182012-05-05T12:29:15.566-04:002012-05-05T12:29:15.566-04:00I love Sebald. Teju Cole too, though not as much....I love Sebald. Teju Cole too, though not as much. Sebald's books seem a lot deeper than Open City, even if politically I am way more sympathetic to Cole. Sebald's tendency to idealize and romanticize Edwardian grandeur is a little weird. I expect it from a hack like Ian McEwan, but from Sebald? Maybe he's just much deeper than I am, but the difference between those big English country homes whose decay he details so lovingly and the wedding-cake mausoleum of Brussels he so rightly despises is not super-clear to me.<br /><br />Anyway, thank you for the post.<br /><br />EC<br />(http://literacyinleafstrewn.blogspot.com/)EChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14853888915441711738noreply@blogger.com