The book presents a detailed catalogue of photographic materials, including negatives, prints, and slides, from the archives of W. G. Sebald, who passed away in 2001. It features a wealth of illustrations alongside contextual interviews, quotations, and essays that enrich the understanding of Sebald's work and legacy. This comprehensive resource not only documents the visual elements left behind but also explores their significance within Sebald's broader artistic and literary contributions.
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, The Rings of Saturn is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.
Inspired by the work of the German writer W. G. Sebald, the exhibition L’Image-papillon (The Butterfly Image) addresses the complex relations that link image and memory. It gathers together sixteen artists whose work, like Sebald’s, explores the realms of memory and history through the concepts of experience and overlapping temporalities. Borrowing its title from a recent essay on Sebald’s Work by the writer and literary researcher Muriel Pic.
Featuring exquisite translations by the author, this collection showcases three classic Sebald novels, including his masterpieces, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. Each work is imbued with Sebald's signature style, blending shadows and subtle humor with deep historical and emotional resonance. The novels capture the essence of nineteenth-century Germanic influences, offering readers a poignant exploration of memory, loss, and the intricacies of human experience.
The first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives.
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001
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.
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.
This volume brings together poems published during Sebald's lifetime with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s to the longer narratives he produced during the 1980s, the poems touch on the themes which were closest to Sebald - nature and history; forgetting and remembering; borders, journeys and landscapes - and express in short, lyrical form the same distinctive insight and sensitivity that shaped his great works of prose fiction.
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.
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.