Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001) (WG Sebald | Books | The Guardian), known as W. G. Sebald was a German writer and academic. After study in Germany he held academic posts in Manchester and The University of East Anglia. His literary output includes celebrated works such as ‘The Emigrants’ (1992), ‘The Rings of Saturn’ (1995) and ‘Austerlitz’ (2001) He died in a car accident at the age of 57.
Carole Angier offers a portrait of Sebald in this book. The materials used are memories of those who knew the author plus extensive reference to his published output. Prominent themes are the dark shadow of the Holocaust, memory, loss and exile.
Sebald was concerned with what his character Jacques Austerlitz calls ‘the marks of pain’, psychological and physical, in human and other animals. Also with one human tactic in the face of suffering, namely silence. From his own past the Holocaust and the Allied bombing of German cities are the salient cases.
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There is meticulous research behind this biography. It will be of great interest to those who have come to love Sebald’s writings.
617 pages in Bloomsbury
ISBN 978 1 5266 3479 5
First published 2021
