{"id":197,"date":"2009-02-24T17:26:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=197"},"modified":"2009-02-24T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:31:05","slug":"wg-sebald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2009\/02\/24\/wg-sebald\/","title":{"rendered":"W.G. Sebald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/02\/sebald-austerlitz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-198 alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/02\/sebald-austerlitz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a>German-born Winfried Georg Sebald (1944-2001) is widely known in the German-speaking world for his visionary novels, collections of poetry, and astute literary criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Sebald&#8217;s award-winning fiction includes the novels <span class=\"stndsmall\"><span class=\"stndsmall\"><em>Schwindel, Gef\u00fchle <\/em>(Vertigo)(1990), <\/span><\/span><span class=\"stndsmall\"><span class=\"stndsmall\"><em>Die Ausgewanderten <\/em>(<\/span><\/span>The Emigrants)<em> <\/em>(1992),\u00a0 <span class=\"stndsmall\"><span class=\"stndsmall\"><em>Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine Englische Wallfahrt <\/em><\/span><\/span>(The Rings of Saturn) (1995), and <em>Austerlitz <\/em>(2001), among others, focus on themes of European history, the collective memory of the postwar generation, and the chaos of the modern world.\u00a0 The novels are not entirely fiction, and have been described as part memoir, part travelogue.\u00a0 Sebald&#8217;s work is frequently illustrated by uncaptioned photographs and other images throughout his text, often meant to evoke the indistinct nature of memory.<\/p>\n<p>Houghton has recently acquired a collection of over thirty works by and about Sebald, a gift of Sebald bibliographer Roger Stoddard.\u00a0 The materials from this accession have been cataloged separately, but may be viewed by searching <a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F\/A8NG1UMQHRXMNS8GV2Q11SR5MFT9TXS34IHX9QVX7F3GQ16SX8-45486?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=WRD%3D(sebald+winfried)+and+(WSL%3DHOU)&amp;adjacent=1\" target=\"_blank\">Hollis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Sebald&#8217;s work has been translated into English by Michael Hulse.\u00a0 For more Sebald at Houghton, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01982\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hulse translations of W.G. Sebald<\/a> papers, <a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=sys=009199395\" target=\"_blank\">MS Eng 1632<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image above is from the dust jacket of the 2001 Verlag edition of <em>Austerlitz. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German-born Winfried Georg Sebald (1944-2001) is widely known in the German-speaking world for his visionary novels, collections of poetry, and astute literary criticism. 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