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"An Indication of the Cause" ( Die Ursache , 1975) by Thomas Bernhard, in Gathering Evidence: A Memoir , translated by David McL...

"In the Penal Colony", from The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, tr. Joachim Neugroschel (S...

In an essay in Campo Santo (2003), a posthumous collection of prose writings, W. G. Sebald provided a critical review of From the Diary of ...

The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald , ed. Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Seven Stories Press, 2010) " So what is liter...

The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald , ed. Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Seven Stories Press, 2010) I had a good readin...

PORTRAIT OF JULIA (1992) by FRANK AUERBACH This wraps up my posting on W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants , a haunting prose work on m...

The third section of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (trans. Michale Hulse) was about the narrator's great-uncle Ambros Adelwarth an...

W. G. Sebald mutes Thomas Bernhard's suicidal clamour, writes James Wood in The Guardian . Indeed, in contrast to Bernhard's, Seb...

The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse (New Directions, 1996) W. G. Sebald's subjects in The Emigrants , and e...

At the end of Vertigo , W. G. Sebald's narrator was travelling on a train and fell into sleep after browsing "at random...

"Il ritorno in patria", from Vertigo (1990) by W. G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse (Vintage Books, 2011) The fourth an...