Saturn's Moons: A W.G Sebald Handbook

694 Pages·2019·25.31 MB·English

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illus trated and drawing on a range of original sources, the
Handbook also contains a number of rediscovered short pieces
by W. G. Sebald, hitherto unpublished interviews, a catalogue
of his library, and selected poems and tributes, as well as
extensive primary and secondary bibliographies, details of
audiovisual material and interviews, and a chronology of life
Edited by Jo Catling and Richard Hibbitt
and works. Saturn’s Moons will be an invaluable sourcebook
for future Sebald studies in English and German alike.
ISBN 978-1-906540-02-9
cover illustration: Front: W. G. Sebald at
Aldeburgh, June 1999; © Nigel Luckhurst.
Back: W. G. Sebald, Self-portrait, Manchester 1967;
© the Estate of W. G. Sebald; by kind permission of
9 781906 540029 Prof. Dr Reinbert Tabbert. Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge
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Saturn’s Moons
W. G. Sebald – A Handbook
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Professor Colin davis, Royal Holloway, University of london
Professor Malcolm Cook, University of exeter (French)
Professor Robin Fiddian, Wadham College, Oxford (Spanish)
Professor Paul Garner, University of leeds (Spanish)
Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex (english)
Professor Marian Hobson Jeanneret,
Queen Mary University of london (French)
Professor Catriona Kelly, new College, Oxford (Russian)
Professor Martin Mclaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford (Italian)
Professor Martin Maiden, Trinity College, Oxford (linguistics)
Professor Peter Matthews, St John’s College, Cambridge (linguistics)
dr Stephen Parkinson, linacre College, Oxford (Portuguese)
Professor Suzanne Raitt, William and Mary College, Virginia (english)
Professor Ritchie Robertson, The Queen’s College, Oxford (German)
Professor lesley Sharpe, University of exeter (German)
Professor david Shepherd, Keele University (Russian)
Professor Michael Sheringham, All Souls College, Oxford (French)
Professor Alison Sinclair, Clare College, Cambridge (Spanish)
Professor david Treece, King’s College london (Portuguese)
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Saturn’s Moons
W. G. Sebald – A Handbook
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edited by Jo Catling and Richard Hibbitt
Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge
2011
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© The Estate of W. G. Sebald for all extracts and illustrations taken from the papers,
manuscripts and published works of W. G. Sebald, and for the following pieces: Review of
Minna von Barnhelm; ‘Die hölzernen Engel von East Anglia’; ‘Leben Ws’; ‘Waterloo’;
‘Feuer und Rauch’; ‘Ausgrabung der Vergangenheit’; ‘[Nomination for the Degree of Honorary
DLitt (Michael Hamburger)]’; the translations of two poems by Michael Hulse
(‘An Botho Strauss in Berlin’ and ‘Raffles Hotel Singapur’); letters to Thomas Bader
of the Buchhandlung zum Wetzstein, Freiburg im Breisgau and to Herbert Blank
© The Estate of Michael Hamburger for ‘Redundant Epitaphs’
of the Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat, Stuttgart
© Anthea Bell for ‘Translating W. G. Sebald — With and Without the Author’
© Michael Hulse for ‘Englishing Max’ and ‘Il ritorno in patria’
© Anne Beresford for ‘For Max’
© Nigel Luckhurst for the cover photograph
© Jon Cook for ‘Lost in Translation?’
© Piet de Moor for ‘Echoes from the Past’
© The Estate of Michael Hamburger for ‘Redundant Epitaphs’
© Jan Peter Tripp for ‘Déclaration de guerre’, ‘Déjà vu oder der Zwischenfall’ and ‘W. G. Sebald’
© Michael Hulse for ‘Englishing Max’ and ‘Il ritorno in patria’
© Steve Wasserman for ‘In This Distant Place’
© Nigel Luckhurst for the cover photograph
© Stephen Watts for ‘Max Sebald: A Reminiscence’ and ‘For my Friend, Max Sebald’
The copyright hold©er sP oief tt hdee iMmoaogre sf orre p‘rEocdhuoceesd fhroemre tahree Pgiavsetn’ after each Figure.
© Luke Williams for ‘A Watch on Each Wrist: Twelve Seminars with W. G. Sebald’
© Jan Peter Tripp for ‘Déclaration de guerre’, ‘Déjà vu oder der Zwischenfall’ and ‘W. G. Sebald’
© Steve Wasserman for ‘In This Distant Place’
© Stephen Watts for ‘Max Sebald: A Reminiscence’ and ‘For my Friend, Max Sebald’
© Luke Williams for ‘A Watch on Each Wrist: Twelve Seminars with W. G. Sebald’
The copyright holders of the images reproduced here are given after each Figure.
Contents
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Acknowledgements x
Note on the Text xii
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
jo catling and richard hibbitt
PART I: THe WRITeR In COnTeXT
1. A Childhood in the Allgäu: Wertach, 1944–52 16
mark m. anderson
2. The Sternheim Years: W. G. Sebald’s Lehrjahre and
Theatralische Sendung 1963–75 42
richard sheppard
App. 1: W. G. Sebald, review of a production of Minna von Barnhelm (1970)
3. At the University: W. G. Sebald in the Classroom 109
gordon turner
App. 1: Translation exercise set at UEA
App. 2: Memo to students from Sebald
App. 3: Summary of courses taught by Sebald at UEA, 1970–2001
4. A Watch on Each Wrist: Twelve Seminars with W. G. Sebald 143
luke williams
5. The Crystal Mountain of Memory: W. G. Sebald as a
University Teacher 154
florian radvan
6. Against Germanistik: W. G. Sebald’s Critical Essays 161
uwe schütte
App. 1–3: Colloquia and research symposia organized by Sebald at UEA
7. Englishing Max 195
michael hulse
8. Translating W. G. Sebald — With and Without the Author 209
anthea bell
9. Sebald’s Photographic Annotations 217
clive scott
10. The Disappearance of the Author in the Work: Some Reflections
on W. G. Sebald’s Nachlass in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach 247
ulrich von bülow
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11. Bibliotheca abscondita: On W. G. Sebald’s Library 265
jo catling
AfTERWORD
Max Sebald: A Reminiscence 299
stephen watts
LYRISCHES INTERMEZZO: fOUR POEMS fOR MAX SEBALD
for my friend, Max Sebald 309
stephen watts
for Max 311
anne beresford
Redundant Epitaphs 312
michael hamburger
Il ritorno in patria 315
michael hulse
PART II: THe WRITeR In dIAlOGUe
1. ‘Rediscovered’ Pieces by W. G. Sebald 318
(1) Die hölzernen Engel von East Anglia 319
(2) Leben Ws 324
(3) Waterloo 334
(4) Two Poems by Michael Hulse, translated by W. G. Sebald 336
(5) feuer und Rauch 338
(6) Ausgrabung der Vergangenheit (on Michael Hamburger) 344
(7) Michael Hamburger: Nomination for the degree of Honorary DLitt 346
2. Three Conversations with W. G. Sebald 349
(1) Echoes from the Past: Conversation with Piet de Moor (Brussels, 1992) 350
(2) Lost in Translation? Conversation with Jon Cook (Norwich, 1999) 356
(3) In This Distant Place: Conversation with Steve Wasserman
(Los Angeles, 2001) 364
3. A Catalogue of W. G. Sebald’s Library 377
jo catling
Contents ix

PART III: A BIBlIOGRAPHIC SURVeY
1. Primary Bibliography 446
richard sheppard
2. Secondary Bibliography 497
jo catling, richard hibbitt, and lynn wolff
3. Reviews of Works by W. G. Sebald 548
jo catling and richard hibbitt
4. Audio-Visual Bibliography 581
gordon turner
5. An Index to Interviews with W. G. Sebald 592
richard sheppard
6. W. G. Sebald: A Chronology 619
richard sheppard
Index 661