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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Throughout his career, W. G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur. To this he added a ...

WG "Max" Sebald is sometimes compared with Kafka. His fictions - if they are fictions - are unpindownable - but, if we are to believe the critics, they are unputdownable, too. He is perhaps the most ...

Sebald died later that year at the age of 57, likely of a heart attack as he was driving near Norwich, England, where he had made his home since leaving West Germany in the 1960s. He did not live to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he ...

Whenever readers despair of contemporary book culture, pointing to the horrors of Dan Brown or EL James; or to the mind-blowing inanities of "writing classes"; or the death of bookselling; or the ...

Since his death in 2001, the reputation of W.G. Sebald has become formidable, even imposing. At times, he feels like a totem: the Western world’s last Absolutely Serious Writer. The German English ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. W.G. Sebald is probably the most revered German writer of the second half of the 20th century. His ...

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.