W.G. Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war
- Written by Linda Daley, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
Ulf Andersen/Getty Images“Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde. Sebald had long harboured a desire to be an author and had a clear plan for becoming one. It...




