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, ...

Some novels refuse easy answers, demanding patience, curiosity and persistence. The reward is not finishing them, but seeing ...

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 ...

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. So every month, The A.V. Club narrows down the endless options to five of the ...

W.G. Sebald, the German-born British author whose career was considered of Nobel caliber at the time of his death in December, was given the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction yesterday.

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 ...

At the time of his tragic death in a car accident in December 2001, W.G. Sebald's four published books in English had begun to attract a wider audience. That said, let me point out that Sebald's ...

Bookworm W. G. Sebald Austerlitz (Random House) What Thomas Mann was to the 1940's and Albert Camus to the 1950's probably places the German writer W. G. Sebald in relation to our new century. In this ...

The book ends, after dense reflections on sericulture and mankind’s futile and devious attempts to impose order upon nature, with a spurious reference to a passage by Sir Thomas Browne about Holland, ...

Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald, by Carole Angier. Bloomsbury. 640 pages. $32. In mid-August of this year I traveled from Berlin to the small town of Sonthofen, in the Allgäu region of ...

1. Nobody writes like W.G. Sebald. In prose as steady and rhythmic as your heartbeat he tells you things no one else does: an accumulation of small details about a person—“said Aunt Fini,” for example ...