The Emigrants

Description

The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with memories, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects photographs–the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: W. G. Sebald,Michael Hulse (Translator)
Published: 11/08/2016
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811226141
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.30″ W

About the Author
Sebald, W. G.: – W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted and Campo Santo.Hulse, Michael: – Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.