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 ...

W.G. Sebald’s four books, “The Emigrants,” “Vertigo,” “The Rings of Saturn” and, just out this month, “Austerlitz,” occupy the thickly carpeted rooms of literary haute couture. This is not a whimsical ...

“Our concern with history… is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet ...

And might it not be,” asks a character in W. G. Sebald’s most recent novel, Austerlitz, “that we also have appointments to keep in the past, in what has gone before and is for the most part ...

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 ...

Denis Lavant (“Holy Motors”) stars as the hero of W.G. Sebald’s last novel By Jordan Mintzer austerlitz Still - H 2015 In her essay on the late German author W.G. Sebald, Susan Sontag began with 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 ...

Writer W.G. Sebald, a professor of German literature at a provincial but respected English university, is on the fast track to greatness. His growing legion of readers agree with notoriously ...

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 ...

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.