W.G. Sebald was a literary supernova. Just 13 years after his book “After Nature ” appeared in Germany in 1988, he was dead at 57, the victim of a car crash. In the United States, where he was unknown ...

Of course it is entirely and grimly appropriate that W.G. Sebald, the quietly brilliant, altogether beautiful German professor and author of a handful of unforgettable, elegiac books only recently ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A similar, if not the same, narrator, in Sebald’s third novel, The Rings of Saturn (1995), seeks release through ...

The work of W.G. Sebald will be the focus of an international scholarly forum, the 8th Sydney German Studies Symposium, which will take place at the Goethe-Institute in Sydney, Australia, from 20 – 23 ...

However, there was more to Sebald’s oeuvre than what he called his “prose fiction,” and over the last two decades, English-language readers have seen the posthumous publication of several nonfiction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz ...

W. G. Sebald in relation to our new century. In this conversation, Sebald describes the source of his rare prose tone and explores the invisible presence of the concentration camps in his work.

Born in 1944 in the Allgäu region in the Bavarian Alps, Winfried Georg Sebald left his native land when still a young man. He settled in England, where he taught at the Universities of Manchester and, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he ...

In W.G. Sebald’s most recently translated work, “A Place in the Country,” the late German writer and academic pays tribute to European thinkers and artists who most inspired him, all while adding his ...

The turning point in W.G. Sebald’s latest novel, “Austerlitz,” comes when the title character wanders into the disused Ladies Waiting Room at the Liverpool Street Station in London sometime in the ...