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Winfried Georg Sebald [1] (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker ”widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature.” [ 2 ]
Themes in the book are those treated in Sebald's other books: time, memory, and identity. According to Patrick Lennon's "In the Weaver's Web" (and Mark McCulloh's Understanding W. G. Sebald), The Rings of Saturn merges the identities of the Sebaldian narrator with that of Michael Hamburger – Sebald and Hamburger both being German writers who moved to England and shared other important ...
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald is a 2021 book by Carole Angier that examines the life of W. G. Sebald. The book received positive reviews. The book received positive reviews. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Sebald told Joseph Cuomo in an interview that he tried to obtain a copy of the BBC programme, but the BBC would not release it. [ 3 ] At the conclusion of the book the narrator takes from his rucksack a copy of Dan Jacobson 's Heshel's Kingdom , an account of his journey in the 1990s to Lithuania in search of traces of his grandfather Heshel's ...
On Bookworm, Silverblatt interviewed a variety of writers, including W. G. Sebald, David Foster Wallace, William Gass, Zadie Smith, Lorrie Moore, Joy Williams, Joshua Cohen, Maggie Nelson, and Richard Powers. He called his interviews "conversations" and did not use prompts or question sheets.
A Comet in the Heavens: On Johann Peter Hebel; J'Aurais Voulu Que Ce Lac Eut Été L'océan: On Jean Jacques-Rousseau; Why I Grieve I Do Not Know: On Eduard Morike; Death Draws Nigh, Time Marches On: On Gottfried Keller
I notice that Sebald redirects here. Given that there was a saint of the same name (a.k.a. Sebaldus; there is a rather prominent church in Nuremberg dedicated to this saint) this probably calls for a disambiguation rather than a redirect.
Michael Hulse (born 1955) is an English poet, translator and critic, [1] notable especially for his translations of German novels by W. G. Sebald, [2] [3] Herta Müller, [4] and Elfriede Jelinek. [ 5 ]