The Emigrants

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New Directions, New York, 1996; originally published (in German) 1992, English List of all editions provided by WorldCat

Fiction

ISBN: 9780811213387

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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.

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Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

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A masterpiece of literature in which the narrative appears to describe the images, but the images are not what the narrative describes. This disconnection between image and text astonished me, and validated all the disconnections and gaps my work has used to create an invitation to others to participate in the signification of a work.

Maira Kalman

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Sebald combines dreamlike narrative with vague and haunting photographs. Read everything he has written.

Mohsen Mostafavi

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Sebald had a major presence in the field of literature and died tragically early in a car crash. He lived in England as an academic but wrote in German. The book is a beautiful exposition of memory and the sense of feeling an outsider.