W.G. Sebald is widely considered to be the most important German writer of the late 20 ^th century. He was an idiosyncratic literary critic whose prose fiction has found an extraordinarily broad professional and lay readership since his untimely death in 2001. This textbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of his literary work and surveys the extensive secondary literature.

Uwe Schütte, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.