Sebald’s Voice
Sebald recorded one audio CD called Max Ferber (Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 2000). This double compact disc set and brochure has Sebald reading in German from the “Max Ferber” section of Die...
View ArticleMissing Pictures 2: The Emigrants
When W.G. Sebald’s Ausgewanderten (1991) was translated and published as The Emigrants in England, the new 1996 version came with a renamed fourth chapter and two fewer photographs. The chapter that...
View ArticleLiterary Cities: Manchester
In re-reading the Max Ferber section of The Emigrants the other day, I suddenly realized that W.G. Sebald was referring to the same city that Michel Butor had described in his great novel of 1957...
View ArticleShadows Across the Text
Some of the photographs in the Max Ferber section of W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants harken back to what is probably the earliest work of fiction ever to embed photographs, Georges Rodenbach’s...
View ArticleDie Ausgewanderten Audiobook
I’m grateful to a Vertigo reader for letting me know that W.G. Sebald’s book Die Ausgewanderten (The Emigrants) is available as a German-language audio book on 7 CDs, published by Winter & Winter....
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