 WITH THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF W.G. SEBALD IN 2001, Europe lost one of its greatest writers. He was born in Germany--the initials stand for Winfried Georg--in the alpine town of Wertach-im-Allgau in 1944. Since his early twenties he lived in England, first in Manchester and then, from 1970, in Norwich, where he taught at the University of East Anglia. We can safely say Sebald did not cross the North Sea to hobnob with the literati: his own agent once claimed never to have met him...Read MORE of Fin Keegan's Review of The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald |
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