He described these "micropoems" in a letter to the artist Tess Jaray, and they were paired with Jan Peter Tripp's lithographs depicting pairs of eyes in the collection Unrecounted.
He wrote a poem that reads, in its entirety, "The red spots on the planet Jupiter are three-hundred-year-old hurricanes," and another reads, "At the end only so many will remain as can sit around a drum." He described these "micropoems" in a letter to the artist Tess Jaray, and they were paired with Jan Peter Tripp's lithographs depicting pairs of eyes in the collection Unrecounted. A trip to Corsica inspired his collection of essays Campo Santo. The narrator of one of his novels seeks out Thomas Browne's skull, prompting one of the historical meditations that punctuate the subtitular "English Pilgrimage." Another novel focuses on the titular architectural historian of Czech descent, who escaped from Nazi Germany to Britain as a child. Known for incorporating newspaper clippings and photographs into his novels, for 10 points, identify this twentieth-century German author of The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz.
He wrote a poem that reads, in its entirety, "The red spots on the planet Jupiter are three-hundred-year-old hurricanes," and another reads, "At the end only so many will remain as can sit around a drum."
Winfried Georg {Sebald}