CRITICISM

Eakin, Hugh. “War and Remembrance.” Nation 276, no. 12 (31 March 2003): 31-3.

Review discussing the controversy surrounding Sebald's attempt to address the suffering wrought by the Allied bombing of Germany during World War II in On the Natural History of Destruction.

Eder, Richard. “Excavating a Life.” New York Times Book Review (28 October 2001): 7.

Positive review of Austerlitz in which Eder discusses Sebald's evocation of the past.

———. “Exploring a Present That Is Invaded by the Past.” New York Times (22 May 2000): E8.

Eder believes Sebald's literary style displays inventive genius in Vertigo.

Eshel, Amir. “Against the Power of Time: The Poetics of Suspension in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz.” New German Critique 88 (winter 2003): 71-86.

Examines Sebald's subversion of chronological time and modernist notions of narrative, consciousness, and historical knowledge in Austerlitz.

Gussow, Mel. “W. G. Sebald, Elegiac German Novelist, Is Dead at 57.” New York Times (15 December 2001): C16.

Obituary that recounts Sebald's life, career, and literary works.

Harris, Stefanie. “The Return of the Dead: Memory and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten.”

Examines Sebald's incorporation of photographic illustrations to supplement and enhance his narrative allusions to the Holocaust in The Emigrants.

Heinegg, Peter. “Memory's Martyr.” Cross Currents 52, no. 1 (spring 2002): 126-29.

Provides a posthumous overview of Sebald's literary works and thematic concerns.

Hoffman, Eva. “Curiosity and Catastrophe.” New York Times Book Review (22 September 2002): 10.

A positive review of After Nature in which Hoffman praises the beauty and maturity of Sebald's early writing.

Iyer, Pico. “Dead Man Writing.” Harper's Magazine 301, no. 1805 (October 2000): 86-90.

Review of Vertigo providing a summary of Sebald's literary style and preoccupation with death.

Jones, Malcolm. “Blending Fact with Fiction.” Newsweek 138, no. 19 (5 November 2001): 66.

Positive review of Austerlitz in which Jones praises the haunting beauty of Sebald's idiosyncratic narrative style.

Kakutani, Michiko. “In a No Man's Land of Memories and Loss.” New York Times (26 October 2001): E2.

Positive review of Austerlitz in which Kakutani lauds Sebald's investigations of the past.

Lubow, Arthur. “Preoccupied with Death, but Still Funny.” New York Times (11 December 2001): E1.

Provides an overview of Sebald's literary career and artistic preoccupations upon the publication of Austerlitz.

Wolff, Larry. “When Memory Speaks.” New York Times Book Review (30 March 1997): 19.

Wolff praises Sebald's profound meditation on twentieth-century history in The Emigrants.

Additional coverage of Sebald's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: British Writers Supplement, Vol. 8; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 159, 202; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 98; and Literature Resource Center.