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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

Incorporating photographs, diagrams, and drawings, the author captures the overwhelming rapidity and totality of the organized destruction of his town from numerous perspectives, bringing to life both the strategy from…