A Jewish scholar crisscrosses Europe as he searches for his forgotten past, with the journey taking him to the edge of his limits. The book is considered one of the most important works of post-WWII ...

If one were looking for signs of an international intellectual conspiracy, the work of W.G. Sebald would be a good place to start. The German-born author, who has lived and taught in Britain for the ...

I enjoyed W.G. Sebald's discursive journey through East Anglia, The Rings of Saturn, but the title of Austerlitz, absurdly, put me off. I assumed it would be a ramble, a bit like The Rings, only ...

Michael Andre Bernstein teaches English and comparative literature at UC Berkeley and is the author, most recently, of "Five Portraits: Modernity and the Imagination in Twentieth-Century German ...

Austerlitz W G Sebald 415pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 In W G Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, which helped him acquire a large British reputation, one of the more memorable scenes - intentionally or ...

Let’s suppose there are at least two kinds of literature: descriptive and transformative. The descriptive kind catches the spirit of the time. It describes the typical and the recognizable, thereby ...

Sebald died later that year at the age of 57, likely of a heart attack as he was driving near Norwich, England, where he had made his home since leaving West Germany in the 1960s. He did not live to ...

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 ...

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.