The emigrants

by Sebald, W. G., (Winfried Georg)

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Title Statements

Full title :The emigrants / W.G. Sebald ; translated by Michael Hulse.

Summary

The road to exile of four men. One is a teacher, fired by the Nazis from his job for having a Jewish ancestor, then inducted into the German army. Of the others, all Jews, one is a surgeon who commits suicide as he is unable to assimilate into British society, a second is an artist, a third becomes a butler in New York.

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. Combining documentary with fiction, Sebald exerts a new magic, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem. --

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1996

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New Directions
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1996

The Physical Object

Description:237 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0811213382, 9780811213387, 9780811226141, 081122614X, 0811213668, 9780811213660, 9780511213663, 0511213662
oclc:ocm34851110
LC Classification:PT2681.E18
Dewey Decimal:833/.914

Subjects

Exiles Exiles -- Fiction Fiction German fiction -- 20th century Historical fiction Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Fiction Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Romans, nouvel… Jewish fiction World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction