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W. G. Sebald in Context

Within the five years before his premature death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. This accessible volume offers a comprehensive overview of…

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The Rings of Saturn

W. G. Sebald

Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: Stunning and strange … Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing… The book is like a dream…

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Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald

Carole Angier

The first biography of W. G. Sebald: a robust, intricate, landmark portrait of one of the most significant and lauded cultural figures of the twentieth century

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After Nature

W. G. Sebald

Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, this book, in each of its three distinct parts, gives centre stage to a different character from a different century - the…

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W. G. Sebald

Uwe Schutte

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald’s double role as writer and academic.

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W. G. Sebald

Uwe Schutte

This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights W.G. Sebald’s double role as writer and academic.

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Austerlitz

W. G. Sebald

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 identity…

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Sebald’s Jews

Dr Gillian Selikowitz

Explores W. G. Sebald's engagement with Jews and Jewishness to provide new insights into controversial tropes and stereotypes in his narrative prose.

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Vertigo

W. G. Sebald

At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing…

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W. G. Sebald - A Critical Companion

Likened to Proust, Gunter Grass, and Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) is one of the most important writers of our time, combining a wide readership with universal critical acclaim…

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W. G. Sebald - A Critical Companion

Likened to Proust, Gunter Grass, and Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) is one of the most important writers of our time, combining a wide readership with universal critical acclaim…

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Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History

Dr. Richard T. Gray (University of Washington, USA)

A comprehensive study of W. G. Sebald’s prose fictions, including published and unpublished works, with a focus on the genetic development of his artistic practices and their relationship to his…

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W. G. Sebald: History - Memory - Trauma

The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ( Die Ausgewanderten , Austerlitz…

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Reading W. G. Sebald: Adventure and Disobedience

Deane Blackler

A daring new view of Sebald’s works and the reading practice they call forth.

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Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History

Dr. Richard T. Gray (University of Washington, USA)

A comprehensive study of W. G. Sebald’s prose fictions, including published and unpublished works, with a focus on the genetic development of his artistic practices and their relationship to his…

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Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald

Carole Angier

The first biography of W. G. Sebald: a robust, intricate, landmark portrait of one of the most significant and lauded cultural figures of the twentieth century

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Saturn’s Moons: W. G. Sebald - A Handbook

Jo Catling

This book focuses on W. G. Sebald’s life and works - as teacher, as scholar and critic, as colleague and as collaborator on translation. It contains a number of rediscovered…

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Saturn’s Moons: W. G. Sebald - A Handbook

Jo Catling

The German novelist, poet and critic W. G.

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W. G. Sebald, l'Economie Du Pathos

Karine Winkelvoss

This book reexamines the cliche of a W. G. Sebald without pathos by showing the conflict between indifference and empathy. The use of documents and images is reevaluated from the…

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W. G. Sebald, l'Economie Du Pathos

Karine Winkelvoss

This book reexamines the cliche of a W. G. Sebald without pathos by showing the conflict between indifference and empathy. The use of documents and images is reevaluated from the…

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The Rings of Saturn

W. G. Sebald

A record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia.

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The Emigrants

W. G. Sebald

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald’s precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to work its…

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Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

This book offers the first full-length study of W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. It examines the different ways…

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W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator

Russell Kilbourn

Focusing on W. G. Sebald’s four works of prose fiction, Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author’s abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular…

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W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator

Russell Kilbourn

Traces W.G. Sebald’s abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. Russell J. A. Kilbourn shows that Sebald’s work stands between modernism’s ironic hopes for…

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A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald

Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea…

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Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

This book offers the first full-length study of W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. It examines the different ways…

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A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald

Investigates the crucial question of ‘restitution’ in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea…

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Austerlitz

W G Sebald

Jacques Austerlitz is the name of an enigmatic stranger who has lived in London many years but is not English. He arrived in Wales in the forties, as young Jewish…

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Die Ausgewanderten

W G Sebald

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Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald

Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary-political implications of…

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Anneaux De Saturne, Les

W. G. Sebald

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Figurationen: Zum lyrischen Werk von W. G. Sebald

Uwe Schutte

W. G. Sebald gilt heute als der vielleicht bedeutendste deutschsprachige Autor des spaten 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine Prosawerke haben eine kaum mehr uberschaubare Zahl von Deutungen und Kommentaren in Gang gesetzt…

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Underworlds of Memory: W. G. Sebald’s Epic Journeys through the Past

Alan Itkin

Underworlds of Memory argues that W. G. Sebald’s narratives, whose protagonists trace Europe’s destructive history in strange encounters with the past, are based on the classical epic journey.

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Underworlds of Memory: W. G. Sebald’s Epic Journeys through the Past

Alan Itkin

Underworlds of Memory argues that W. G. Sebald’s narratives, whose protagonists trace Europe’s destructive history in strange encounters with the past, are based on the classical epic journey.

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Austerlitz

W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell (trans.)

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 identity…

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Zur Rezeption Der Philosophie Ludwig Wittgensteins Im Literarischen Werk W. G. Sebalds

Martin Hackel

Das Buch zieht eine Analogie zwischen dem literarischen Konzept des Synoptischen Blicks bei Sebald und dem sprachkritischen der UEbersichtlichen Darstellung Wittgensteins sowie liest Sebalds Gesamtwerk als Versuch, das philosophische Konzept…

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Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001

W. G. Sebald

A selection of poetry by W G Sebald. It brings together poems from throughout W G Sebald’s life as well as additional works found after his death. It is arranged…

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Campo Santo

W. G. Sebald

A collection of essays by W G Sebald, which provide insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. It also includes four pieces that pay tribute to Corsica…

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Urn Burial

Thomas Browne

Urn Burial, one of the most influential essays in Western literature, is now available as a New Directions Pearl.

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A Place in the Country

W. G. Sebald

When the author travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during…

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Three Book Sebald Set: The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo

W. G. Sebald

The masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now in gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund

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On The Natural History Of Destruction

W. G. Sebald

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 cities. This title explores…

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The Emigrants

W. G. Sebald

A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund

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The Rings of Saturn

W. G. Sebald

A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund

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Vertigo

W. G. Sebald

A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund

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Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald

Daniel Medin

Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction - J M Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W G Sebald - have…

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W. G. Sebald in Context

The Rings of Saturn

Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald

After Nature

W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

Sebald’s Jews

Vertigo

W. G. Sebald - A Critical Companion

W. G. Sebald - A Critical Companion

Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History

W. G. Sebald: History - Memory - Trauma

Reading W. G. Sebald: Adventure and Disobedience

Ghostwriting: W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History

Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald

Saturn’s Moons: W. G. Sebald - A Handbook

Saturn’s Moons: W. G. Sebald - A Handbook

W. G. Sebald, l'Economie Du Pathos

W. G. Sebald, l'Economie Du Pathos

The Rings of Saturn

The Emigrants

Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator

W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator

A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald

Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

A Radical Stage: Theatre in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s

Die Ausgewanderten

Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald

Anneaux De Saturne, Les

Figurationen: Zum lyrischen Werk von W. G. Sebald

Underworlds of Memory: W. G. Sebald’s Epic Journeys through the Past

Underworlds of Memory: W. G. Sebald’s Epic Journeys through the Past

Austerlitz

Zur Rezeption Der Philosophie Ludwig Wittgensteins Im Literarischen Werk W. G. Sebalds

Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001

Campo Santo

Urn Burial

A Place in the Country

Three Book Sebald Set: The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo

On The Natural History Of Destruction

The Emigrants

The Rings of Saturn

Vertigo

Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald

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