Winfried Georg Sebald, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator , trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Random $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-50484-6
Shortly before his untimely death last year, Sebald had published to great acclaim Austerlitz,
the NBCC Prize–winning fourth of his novel-memoirs that appeared in rapid succession. Now comes this slim collection of four essays addressing the
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Winfried Georg Sebald, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator , trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Random $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6229-4
This brief volume is the latest and reportedly last collection of essays by German novelist and critic Sebald, who has seemed more prolific since his death in 2001 than in life. Despite the masterful translation, these essays fail to cohere, though...
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Winfried Georg Sebald, Author, Michael Hulse, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $15.95 (238p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1366-0
ISBN 0-8112-1366-8. Four ""biographies"" of Germans in exile. (Sept.)
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Winfried Georg Sebald, Author, Michael Hulse, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $23.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1378-3
As he did so brilliantly in The Emigrants, German author Sebald once again blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction in this meditative work. Sebald's unnamed, traveling narrator is making his way through the county of Suffolk, England, and from
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Winfried Georg Sebald, Author, Michael Hulse, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $23.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1430-8
Sebald's third novel to be translated into English is in fact the German author's first novel, written before the acclaimed travel meditation, The Rings of Saturn, and The Emigrants. This exquisitely composed work also undertakes a disorienting, if...
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Winfried Georg Sebald, Author, Michael Hulse, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $22.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1338-7
Composed of four compelling portraits of Jewish emigres whose lives have been scarred by exile, dislocation and persecution, this unusual work of fiction is pervaded by a sensibility and a degree of circumstantial detail so authentic that it could...
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Winfried Georg Sebald, Author, W. G. Sebald, Author , trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Random $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-375-50483-9
The ghost of what historian Peter Gay calls "the bourgeois experience," molded in the liberalism and neurasthenia of the 19th century and destroyed in the wars and concentration camps of the 20th century, haunts W.G. Sebald's unique...
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