The Voice Over

21.  Sebald, A Place in the Country, 19.

22.  Sebald, Campo Santo, 135.

23.  Sebald, A Place in the Country, 154.

OVER VENERABLE GRAVES

The title of this essay comes from Pushkin’s poem “When lost in thought I wander beyond the town” (“Kogda za gorodom, zadumchiv, ia brozhu,” 1836). The translation is from Andrew Kahn’s Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 321.

1.  From Boris Pasternak’s poem “Star of the Nativity” (1947).

2.  From Pushkin’s poem “When down the bustling streets I pass” (“Brozhu li ia vdol’ ulits shumnykh,” 1829). Alexander Pushkin, Selected Lyric Poetry, trans. James Falen (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2009), 149.

3.  W. G. Sebald, Campo Santo, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Modern Library, 2006), 32.

4.  Anatoly Fomenko is notorious for his pseudohistorical theory of “New Chronology.”

5.  Sebald, Campo Santo, 32.

6.  In communal apartments, there would be signs telling visitors how many times to ring the doorbell for each resident so that the right person would answer the door.

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