Table of Contents -- Foreword The Sebald Phenomenon -- Introduction Two Languages, Two Audiences: The Tandem Literary OEuvres of W.G. Sebald -- Introduction and Transcript of an interview given by Max Sebald -- Section 1 Contexts and Influences -- Kafka, Nabokov … Sebald: Intertextuality and Narratives of Redemption in Vertigo and The Emigrants -- Sebald's Pathographies -- Sebald's Elective and Other Affinities -- In the Weavers' Web: An Intertextual Approach to W.G. Sebald and Laurence Sterne -- Sebald's Kafka -- Sebald's Amateurs -- Section 2 Narrative and Style -- "A Time He Could Not Bear to Say Any More About": Presence and Absence of the Narrator in W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants -- The Task of the Narrator: Moments of Symbolic Investiture in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- "Egg boxes stacked in a crate": Narrative Status and its Implications -- Speak no Evil, Write no Evil: In Search of a Usable Language of Destruction -- On Exposure: Photography and Uncanny Memory in W.G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz -- Realism, Photography, and Degrees of Uncertainty -- Section 3 History and Trauma -- The Dystopian Entwinement of Histories and Identities in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- Transcripts: An Ethics of Representation in The Emigrants -- Landscape and Memory: Sebald's Redemption of History -- The Holocaust as the Still Point of the World in W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants -- W.G. Sebald's Twentieth-Century Histories -- Going Astray: Melancholy, Natural History, and the Image of Exile in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- No Foothold. Institutions and Buildings in W.G. Sebald's Prose -- The Experience of Destruction: W.G. Sebald, the Airwar, and Literature -- W.G. Sebald and Structures of Testimony and Trauma: There are Spots of Mist That No Eye can Dispel -- Short Titles and Abbreviations used in this Volume -- Works Cited.