Some novels refuse easy answers, demanding patience, curiosity and persistence. The reward is not finishing them, but seeing ...

The turning point in W.G. Sebald’s latest novel, “Austerlitz,” comes when the title character wanders into the disused Ladies Waiting Room at the Liverpool Street Station in London sometime in the ...

Reading WG Sebald I felt a growing affinity, although not with the man himself - I never met, let alone knew him - nor with humanity in general. Indeed, immersed in Sebald, the inversion of ...

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 ...

I enjoyed W.G. Sebald's discursive journey through East Anglia, The Rings of Saturn, but the title of Austerlitz, absurdly, put me off. I assumed it would be a ramble, a bit like The Rings, only ...

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of one of contemporary literature’s most transformative figures. On December 14, 2001, the German writer W. G. Sebald suffered a heart attack while ...

Austerlitz WG Sebald Hamish Hamilton £16.99, pp415 I first came across the writings of WG Sebald by accident. I was browsing the shelves of the Travel Bookshop in north Kensington, looking for books ...

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 ...

A Jewish scholar crisscrosses Europe as he searches for his forgotten past, with the journey taking him to the edge of his limits. The book is considered one of the most important works of post-WWII ...