more W. G. Sebald

If you have not already done so, first read the interview with W. G. Sebald linked on the assignment page for May 20.

THEN, read the following. Yes, there's a long list, but they all contain very similar information. I'd like you to pay special attention to the attitudes expressed by the various authors. Then think through your own responses to what you have read. How are you reacting? Why? What do your reactions say about your own expectations of books, fiction, authors?

Carole Angier, Ensnaring Sebald Links to an external site.

Ryu Spaeth, The Lost World of W. G. Sebald Links to an external site.

Max Norman, W. G. Sebald, the Trickster Links to an external site.

Lucasta Miller, W. G. Sebald's borrowed truths and barefaced lies Links to an external site.

Judith Shulevitz, W. G. Sebald ransacked Jewish lives for his fiction Links to an external site.

Iain Dale, In Defence of Max Sebald Links to an external site.

and finally the Carole Angier quote on this website Links to an external site.

Please also spend some time thinking about the order of the four sections in The Emigrants. What other sorts of movement do you see, if any?

One more thing for you to read. No need to read it in time for today's class, but I think it's the most interesting and nuanced of the reviews of or articles about Angier's biography of Sebald.

Ben Lerner, The Storyteller Links to an external site.