A work of imaginative literature, this fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, Sebald's home for the last 20 years, is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past, evoking people and cultures of the region, past and present[...]

What initially appears to be a plain account of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester, merges into an evocation of the experience of exile and the loss of homeland.[...]

"After Nature" by W.G. Sebald, author of "Austerlitz", is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and brilliant writing journey. In this long prose poem, Sebald introduces many of the themes that he explores in his subsequent books. Focusing on the conflict between man and natur[...]

A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald. When W. G. Sebald 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 the years when he was settled in England. In A[...]

The contemporary German author W. G. Sebald was a master of the fiction of recollection and observation, often exploring the reverberations of World War II on the personal and collective memories of Germans and Jews. His rich body of work earned him legions of fans across the globe, but in the wake [...]

Across the Land and the Water is a stunningly beautiful selection of poetry by W. G. Sebald. Across the Land and the Water brings together poems from throughout W. G. Sebald's life as well as additional works found after his death. Arranged chronologically, from his student days in the 1960s to the [...]

Focusing on W. G. Sebald's four works of prose fiction-The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, and Austerlitz-Russell J. A. Kilbourn traces the author's abiding preoccupation with redemption in a world that has been described as postsecular. He shows that Sebald's work stands between modernism'[...]

"A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, "The New Yorker"
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of "Austerlitz, "the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges[...]

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 [...]

Im Mai 2019 ware W.G. Sebald 75 Jahre geworden. Ein ebenso kenntnisreiches wie personliches Portrait des Schriftstellers in dem das widerspruchliche, komplexe Phanomen Sebald von einem seiner besten Kenner in sieben Zugangen ausgeleuchtet wird. W.G. Sebald starb im Dezember 2001 bei einem Autounfall[...]

Als W.G. Sebald im Winter 2001 bei einem Autounfall starb, war er als einer der bedeutendsten Prosaautoren deutscher Sprache weltweit berühmt. Nur Kenner aber wussten, dass Sebald seit vielen Jahren auch Gedichte schrieb und in Zeitschriften veröffentlichte. Gedichte von eigentümlicher Kraft, die[...]