J.J. Long's W.G. Sebald
Over at Conversational Reading, Scott Esposito has a great review of J.J. Long’s recent book, W.G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity: A partial list of major topics will bring more detail if not more cohesion: (post-)colonialism, photography, the gaze, maps, archives, police/nanny states, the Holocaust, ...
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Sebald on writing
Vertigo, the blog dedicated to the work of Sebald, is re-printing an interview with Sebald that first appeared in a literary magazine in the UK in 2003: Vertigo is pleased to be able to share the following interview with W.G. Sebald conducted by Jens Mühling in 2000, when Mühling was an MA student in comparative ...
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Selfdivider covers a Sebald Panel
Went to the Sebald panel that the Mercantile Library hosted to kick off the publication of The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W. G. Sebald (Seven Stories), edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. First of all, the library is beautiful, and I can’t believe I didn’t even know about its existence prior to last night. It ...
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Old Sebald interview
This is really old, but since it’s new to me I thought it might be new to some of you as well. Michael Silverblatt interviewed W. G. Sebald in 2001 on Bookworm. I’m listening to it now. Via ...
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Eurozine on 'Air Raid' Literature
Eurozine has an article which surveys German novels that reflect the effects of the Allied bombing campaign in WWII., and attempts to address the questions Sebald posed in Air War and Literature: No major postwar German novel dealt with the Allied bombing of German cities in World War II: during the Cold War, the echo ...
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Sebald and Bolaño
To continue our wall-to-wall Bolaño coverage: Vertigo, the blog that collects all things Sebald, points us to two new books about Sebald. We already talked about the first one, but the second one may be even more interesting. It’s called The Archimedean Author: Roberto Bolaño, W.G. Sebald, and Narrative After ...
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More Sebald
Following up on the earlier Sebald post, I thought it’s worth mentioning that Boydell & Brewer/Camden House is bringing out one of first critical books on Sebald any day now. It’s entitled Reading W. G. Sebald: Adventure and Disobedience, and here’s the description on the B&B site: W. G. Sebald was ...
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