The emergence of memory
Subtitle: conversations with W.G. Sebald
By: edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Contributors: Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
Edition: 1st trade pbk ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781583229156
Subjects: Interviews; German Authors; Biography
Description: When German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through pieces culled from essays, interviews, and reviews, award-winning translator and author Lynn Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the late Sebald, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of historical cruelty, memory, and dislocation in post-Nazi Europe. With contributions from poet, essayist, and translator Charles Simic, New Republic editor Ruth Franklin, Bookworm radio host Michael Silverblatt, and more, The Emergence of Memory offers Sebald's own voice in interviews between 1997 up to a month before his death in 2001. Also included are cogent accounts of almost all of Sebald's books, thematically linked to events in the contributors' own lives.
Notes: Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Lynne Sharon Schwartz; title: The hunter / by Tim Parks; title: Ghost hunter / by Eleanor Wachtel; title: Who is W.G. Sebald? / by Carole Angier; title: A poem of an invisible subject / by Michael Silverblatt; title: A chilly extravagance / by Michael Hofmann; title: A conversation with W.G. Sebald / by Joseph Cuomo; title: Rings of smoke / by Ruth Franklin; title: Conspiracy of silence / by Charles Simic; title: Crossing boundaries / by Arthur Lubow.