Artist Book: Manchester (UK) Walk (2011)

Sebald, W.G. (1996) The Emigrants, "Max Ferber", translated by Michael Hulse, London: Vintage, pp.147-237 "They come when night falls to search for life" (p147) "...I decided, for various reasons, to move to England, I had a barely adequate notion of what the contry was like or how...I would fare abroad." (p149) "Inexperienced as i was, I imagined I could begin a new life in Manchester, from scratch; but instead, Manchester reminded me of everything I was trying to forget. Manchester is an immigrant city...and so, although I had intended to move in the opposite direction, when I arive in Manchester I had come home, in a sense, ad with every year I havee spent since then in this birthplace of industrialization, amidst the black facades, I have realized more clearly than ever that I am here, as they used to say, to server under the chinmey." (pp.191-2) "Roza, Luisa and Lea, or Nona, Deuma and Morta, the daughters of the night, with spindle, scissors and thread" (p.237) "Manchester has taken possession of me for good. I cannot leave, I do not want to leave, I must not." (p169) "In winter...if a ship suddenly appeared out of the mist when one least expected it, passed by soudlessly, and vanished once more in the white air, then for me, everytime, it wa an utterly incomprehensible spectacle which moved me deeply. (p.166)