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The four long narratives inThe Emigrantsappear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in t
The Rings of Saturnwith its curious archive of photographsrecords a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Brownes s
Dr Henry Selwyn, Paul Bereyter, Ambros Adelwarth and Max Ferber are exiled across a shattered Europe. Set across Europe and America from the late nineteenth century through the aftermath of the Holocaust, The Emigrants reconstructs lives marked by displac
Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald When W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a powerfu
Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his id
Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destruction In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and
"Austerlitz" er en smuk og melankolsk fortælling om en tabt identitet i efterkrigstidens Europa. I 1939 bliver femårige Jaques Austerlitz fra Tjekkoslovakiet sendt i sikkerhed til England, hvor han flytter ind hos et aldrende walisisk ægtepar. D
A profoundly affirming book about the potential for literature . . . One of the few essential writers of this generation The Scotsman From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn , a collection of
Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, conste
Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his "micropoems"-miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works-with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp. T
Nyt omslag i seriedesign Den tysk-engelske forfatter W.G. Sebald er en samler med et arkiv af livsberetninger. Hans romaner er en slags erindringens og mindernes arkæologi. De er båret af viljen til at komme glemslen og fortrængningen af fortiden til livs
Eine provozierende These: Die deutsche Literatur hat vor dem Grauen des Luftkriegs versagt. Mit analytischer Schärfe und großem Materialreichtum markiert Sebald eine Wunde in der Nachkriegsliteratur, die bis heute nicht verheilt ist. Seine herausfordernde
In diesen aufschlußreichen sowie brillant formulierten Essays zu Werken von Stifter, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal und Kafka, von Canetti, Bernhard, Handke, Ernst Herbeck und Gerhard Roth gelingt es dem Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler Sebald, einig
Keller, Hebel, Mörike und Walser waren Außenseiter, Abseitsstehende und vielleicht auch Gescheiterte. Sebald folgt ihren Spuren, die sie im Leben und in der Literatur hinterlassen haben. Er zeichnet eindringliche Porträts, in denen die Dichter so greifbar
Matthias Grünewald, der berühmte Meister des Isenheimer Altars, der große Naturforscher Georg Wilhelm Steller von der Beringschen Alaska-Expedition und der Autor selbst - drei unterschiedliche Männer aus weit auseinanderliegenden Jahrhunderten. Bei allen
Schwindelartige Gefühle der Irritation - in den vier durch wiederkehrende Motive und literarische Anspielungen kunstvoll miteinander verwobenen, geheimnisvollen Geschichten überkommen sie den Erzähler immer dann, wenn sich zwischen Erinnerung und Wirklich
Migranternes historie er den moderne verdens historie, synes Sebald at sige. Menneskeliv, der har været stabile og ensartede i århundreder, rives op med rode og plantes om. I de fire lange fortællinger i De udvandrede fortæller han den historie ved at for
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he co
Da Sebald påbegyndte det, der skulle blive hans hovedværk, romanen Austerlitz, lagde han et andet projekt til side den om muligt endnu mere ambitiøse fortælling Campo Santo, som skulle begynde på øen Korsika og derfra forgrene sig ud til hele modernitete
We 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 Aust
Wer ist Austerlitz? Ein rätselhafter Fremder, der immer wieder an den ungewöhnlichsten Orten auftaucht: am Bahnhof, am Handschuhmarkt, im Industriequartier ... Und jedes Mal erzählt er ein Stück mehr von seiner Lebensgeschichte, der Geschichte eines unerm
From the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times ) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shaped his life and work. Silent Catastrophes brings togeth