The Emigrants
Place on List:
II. Literary Genre: The
Novel
3.
How is political conflict directly represented in novels?
W.G.
Sebald. The
Emigrants.
(1996, Germany)
Supporting References:
- NY Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/30/reviews/970330.30wolfft.html
- Silke Horstkotte. “Pictorial and Verbal Discourse in W. G.
Sebald’s The Emigrants” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ijcs/mediation/horstkotte.htm
- Why you should read WG Sebald (the new yorker) http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/12/why-you-should-read-w-g-sebald.html
- "Sebald, W. G.." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Eds. Drabble, Margaret, Jenny Stringer, and Daniel Hahn. : Oxford University Press, 2007. Oxford Reference. 2007. Date Accessed 16 Aug. 2013
The article offers
an overview of Sebald and less a discussion on the above-cited
text.
“Sebald, W. G. (‘Max’ Winfred
Georg Maximilian Sebald) (1944–2001), Anglo‐German novelist,
poet, translator, and academic, born in Wertach‐im‐Allgäu,
Bavaria. Sebald moved to Manchester in 1966, where he taught at the
University; from 1970 he taught at the University of East Anglia,
where he became a professor of German literature in 1987 and founder
of the British Centre for Literary Translation in 1989. In a series
of highly distinctive works of fiction—notably Vertigo
(1990, trans. 1999), The Emigrants (1993, trans. 1996), The
Rings of Saturn (1995, trans. 1998), and Austerlitz
(2001)—that combine novel, memoir, travelogue, and fact, often
illustrated with ambiguous black and white photographs, Sebald
ruminated on memory, loss, exile, transience, and, more explicitly,
the shadow of the Holocaust and post‐war Germany's relationship
with its past. He closely supervised the translation of his work from
the German (with Michael Hulse or Anthea Bell) and conveyed England,
particularly East Anglia, with such close attention that he has some
claim to be as much a British as a German writer.”
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