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Original Title:	Die Ausgewanderten
ISBN:	0099448882 (ISBN13: 9780099448884)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Fiction (1997), Metų verstinė knyga Nominee (2011)

The Emigrants Paperback | Pages: 237 pages

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At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.

Written with a bone-dry sense of humour and a fascination with the oddness of existence The Emigrants is highly original in its heady mix of fact, memory and fiction and photographs.

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Title	:	The Emigrants
Author	:	W.G. Sebald
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 237 pages
Published	:	May 29th 2002 by Vintage (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Germany

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You said: Ill go to another country, go to another shore,Find another city better than this one These verses from Cavafy at once came to my mind as only I started reading The emigrants . Sebald takes us for a journey back into the past, travelling across Switzerland, France, America, England, Jerusalem, Constantinople. We can see him collecting maps, diaries, photographs of people and places, houses, railways and furniture, in detail depicturing all migration traces through cities, hotels,

The Emigrants: four human lives, four broken fates W.G. Sebald, himself an emigrant for many years, knows how does it feel to live far away from a homeland.Dr. Selwyn and I had a long talk prompted by his asking whether I was ever homesick. I could not think of any adequate reply, but Dr. Selwyn, after a pause for thought, confessed (no other word will do) that in recent years he had been beset with homesickness more and more. When I asked where it was that he felt drawn back to, he told me that

These are four enigmatic and haunting stories of increasing length and complexity, where the narrator is not necessarily the same person in each - but Ill call him N anyway.Despite some very moving passages and a tremendous sense of loss, I didnt at first feel the whole was very successful, a 3-ish star at best. The narratives can be bleak and heart-wrenching, certainly, but they run on and on - sometimes stalled in a recall of quite impossible detail, then skipping abruptly to another topic. In

When I was a kid I thought that everyone was happier than me, that they felt connected to the world in a way that I did not. I experienced life as though I was behind glass, as though some barrier existed between me and the world that obscured, muffled, and distorted it. That wasnt, as it is tempting to assume, a consequence of being raised in straightened circumstances - although I guess that did not help at all it was something that was in me and has remained with me, at least in a diluted

The Emigrants is such a mighty book that it has taken me some time to think about what I can say about it, and in the end I've decided to start my review with these paragraphs from its Foreword: At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebalds precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sense

4.5/5 This quiet and beautifully written novel tells of four men who survived World War II, and who emigrated to other countries, leaving their countries of origin behind in order to settle elsewhere. Even though the four main characters all escaped with their lives, there is no real peace for any of them as the effects of the war remain, washing wave after wave of sadness and muted memories of loss over their entire lives. W. G. Sebald keeps his readers distant from his protagonists by telling

Initial Remark: I completed reading the book yesterday. And I could not write an early review because I was emotionally very much disturbed by the questions/sentiments exposed by Sebald in the final pages.Otherwise, it is a typical Sebald book with the usual themes of MEMORY, TRANSIENCE OF HUMAN NATURE, LONGING FOR THE PAST, HIDDEN LINKS THAT REGULARIZE LIFE, etc. The theme predominant throughout the book is MEMORY and it ends with a powerful question that touches on the theme of collective