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Silent Catastrophes Bio25 René suffers extraordinary hardshipWe have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebalds case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing John Banville, Guardian From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, a collection of essay on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him appearing for the first time in English As a German in self chosen exile from his country of