1st Edition

Saturn's Moons A W.G Sebald Handbook

By Jo Catling, Richard Hibbitt Copyright 2011
696 Pages
by Routledge

694 Pages
by Routledge

692 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on W. G. Sebald's life and works — as teacher, as scholar and critic, as colleague and as collaborator on translation. It contains a number of rediscovered short pieces by Sebald, hitherto unpublished interviews, a catalogue of his library, and selected poems and tributes.

1. Introduction Part I: The Writer in Context 2. A Childhood in the Allgäu: Wertach, 1944–52 3. The Sternheim Years: W. G. Sebald’s Lehrjahre and Theatralische Sendung 1963–75 4. At the University: W. G. Sebald in the Classroom 5. A Watch on Each Wrist: Twelve Seminars with W. G. Sebald 6. The Crystal Mountain of Memory: W. G. Sebald as a University Teacher 7. Against Germanistik: W. G. Sebald’s Critical Essays 8. Englishing Max 9. Translating W. G. Sebald — With and Without the Author 10. Sebald's Photographic Annotations 11. The Disappearance of the Author in the Work: Some Reflections on W. G. Sebald's Nachlass in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach 12. Bibliotheca abscondita: On W. G. Sebald's Library 13. Afterword: Max Sebald: A Reminiscence Lyrisches Intermezzo 14. For my Friend, Max Sebald 15. For Max 16. Redundant Epitaphs 17. Il ritorno in patria Part II: The Writer in Dialogue 18. Rediscovered' Pieces by W. G. Sebald 19. Three Conversations with W. G. Sebald 20. A Catalogue of W. G. Sebald's Library Part III: A Bibliographic Survey 21. Primary Bibliography 22. Secondary Bibliography 23. Reviews of Works by W. G. Sebald 24. Audio-Visual Bibliography 25. An Index to Interviews with W. G. Sebald 26. W. G. Sebald: A Chronology

Biography

Jo Catling