W. G. Sebald Books

When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation.With contributions from poet, essayist, and translator Charles Simic, New Republic editor Ruth Franklin, Bookworm radio host Michael Silverblatt, and more, The Emergence of Memory offers Sebald’s own voice in interviews between 1997 up to a month before his death in 2001. Also included are cogent accounts of almost all of Sebald’s books, thematically linked to events in the contributors’ own lives.Contributors include Carole Angier, Joseph Cuomo, Ruth Franklin, Michael Hofmann, Arthur Lubow, Tim Parks, Michael Silverblatt, Charles Simic, and Eleanor Wachtel.

W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.

The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives.

A fictional account of a walking tour of the English countryside, moving through space and time in a dream-like mode.

At first, The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the 20th century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to work its magic, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and losss.

The book features thirty-three micropoems by W. G. Sebald, known for their unique and unclassifiable nature, paired with striking lithographs by artist Jan Peter Tripp. This collaboration highlights the intricate relationship between Sebald's poetic miniatures and Tripp's visual artistry, creating a rich interplay of words and images that invites deep reflection and exploration.

At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. W.G. Sebald explores this theme through four stories and four journeys - the journeys of Stendhal, Kafka, and twice of the unnamed narrator.

In the last years of the Second World War, a million tonnes of bombs were dropped by the Allies on 131 German towns and cities. 600,000 civilians died, seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. W.G. Sebald's lucid but harrowing essays explore the consequences for the German people of the mass destruction of their cities.

Exploring themes of nature, history, and memory, this collection showcases nearly one hundred poems by W. G. Sebald, highlighting his literary mastery. Spanning from his student years in the sixties to works completed before his death in 2001, the poems, many published in English for the first time, reflect Sebald's unique voice and profound insights. Translated by Iain Galbraith, this volume promises to be a significant contribution to Sebald's already esteemed oeuvre, resonating with readers familiar with his prose.

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 last being W G Sebald himself. schovat popis