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 ...

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 ...

W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his readers ...

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, ...

A visionary composition on a series of spoken reflections about a literary work — itself full of layered free-association — Gee’s intricate, prismatic film might sound as if it must be buried in ...

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 ...

Once you get hooked on W. G. Sebald's work it is hard not to regard most other literature as frivolous. He is, however, an acquired taste, like single-malt scotch. The first words of his complex and ...

They say that when a person dies, there’s a 24-hour period when their souls are still wandering. Of course, the great writer W.G. Sebald, who died Friday in a car crash in East Anglia, England, was ...

We doubt we’ll ever discover another writer quite like W.G. Sebald, who died in a car accident in 2001. His sublime books mix fact, fiction, autobiography, and what can only be described as reverie.

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