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I have said that, in Emigrants, Max Sebald relied for content on the stories of real people, including an unnamed narrator who was...

The last section in Emigrants is entitled Max Ferber. Here, our narrator is a youth in his early twenties who escapes life in Germany...

The third section of Emigrants, Ambros Adelwarth, is all about revenants, people who return, people who are thought of as dead but come...

Last week, I wrote about how Emigrants can be seen as the story of a narrator’s reactions to encounters with four different people—except...

A theme I’d like to pursue in thinking about this remarkable book, is that Emigrants is (among other things) about the effect on the...

In Amazon’s system of classification, Emigrants is found under literature and biography, and the promotion says the book combines...

This week, a new story, The Emigrants by the late German author W.G. Sebald. I’m reading Michael Hulse’s 1996 translation of the 1992...