Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen
A representative entry point into Sebald’s mature hybrid prose, combining biography, memoir, history, and fiction.
Author guide
W. G. Sebald (1944–2001) was a German writer and literary scholar who lived and taught in England, chiefly at the University of East Anglia. His prose combines fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, historical investigation, and photography. His major literary works include four internationally acclaimed prose narratives, as well as poetry, literary criticism, and essay collections. He also directed the British Centre for Literary Translation.
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A representative entry point into Sebald’s mature hybrid prose, combining biography, memoir, history, and fiction.
His most widely recognized and structurally expansive novel.
Outside the series
novel · 2001
essay_collection · 1985
essay_collection · 1991
essay_collection · 1998
essay_collection · 1999
poetry · 1988
posthumous_collection · 2003
collaborative_poetry · 2001
collaborative_poetry · 2003
academic_monograph · 1969
academic_monograph · 1980
prose_narrative · 1990
prose_narrative · 1992
prose_narrative · 1995