I met Martin Ostwald in 1996, shortly after I became friends with his son David, whose son was in the same kindergarten class as mine. By then, Martin had retired from his position as a classics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The problem with the works of German author WG Sebald is that anyone who cites his influence is immediately heralded as a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...