Brian Castro
Brian Castro is the author of ten novels, including the multi award-winning Double-Wolf (1991) and Shanghai Dancing (2003). He has also published a volume of essays entitled Looking For Estrellita (1999). His latest novel is Street To Street (2012). He is Director of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.
All essays by Brian Castro
Sensible Seeing: A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald
In its six essays on five writers and a painter, his gaze operates like a form of scansion, picking up the long and short sounds (moments musicaux as Sebald calls them, via Schubert) in order to get behind the art in all its grief and consolation, to discover the differentiation between the life and the work.
Literature and Fashion
Much of what I read in the field of criticism these days is not purely literary criticism… but essays which are also fictions, perhaps referring to literary works in passing, in order to reference, interrogate and explore culture: its fashions, its trends, its past and future.
