W.G. Sebald was a literary supernova. Just 13 years after his book “After Nature ” appeared in Germany in 1988, he was dead at 57, the victim of a car crash. In the United States, where he was unknown ...

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 ...

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 ...

E.L. Doctorow is the author of numerous novels, including "Ragtime" and, most recently, "City of God." Last month Queens College in New York City held a symposium on the work of the late German author ...

Once you get hooked on W. G. Sebald's work it is hard not to regard most other literature as frivolous. He is, however, an acquired taste, like single-malt scotch. The first words of his complex and ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. A similar, if not the same, narrator, in Sebald’s third novel, The Rings of Saturn (1995), seeks release through ...

W.G. SEBALD was a literary supernova. Just 13 years after his book “After Nature” appeared in Germany in 1988, he was dead at 57, the victim of a car crash. In the U.S., where he was unknown until ...

Born in 1944 in the Allgäu region in the Bavarian Alps, Winfried Georg Sebald left his native land when still a young man. He settled in England, where he taught at the Universities of Manchester and, ...

We doubt we’ll ever discover another writer quite like W.G. Sebald, who died in a car accident in 2001. His sublime books mix fact, fiction, autobiography, and what can only be described as reverie.

W.G. Sebald, the German-born British author whose career was considered of Nobel caliber at the time of his death in December, was given the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction yesterday.

The narrator of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) is relating his story against the clock, as the German homeland finds itself pulverized and encircled in the spring of 1945. He punctuates almost ...