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posted on 2017-05-22, 02:15 authored by Diane MolloyWalter Benjamin in his essay on Marcel Proust claims that all great works of literature establish a genre or dissolve one - that they are, in other words, special cases. When W G Sebalds fiction was first published many critics found it difficult to define his style or categorise his work, and indeed some claimed he had created a new genre. His work has been variously described as literary monism, a generic hybridity and documentary novels and Joyce Hackett claims he has reinvent[ed] the diary as his own genre.