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Richard T. Gray is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German and European Studies at the University of Washington, USA. He is the author of five books, including Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 (2008), A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (with Ruth V. Gross, Rolf Goebel, and Clayton Koelb; 2005), About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (2004), and Stations of the Divided Subject: Contestation and Ideological Legitimation in German Bourgeois Literature, 1770-1912 (1995). He is the editor and/or translator of 11 books, including Volumes 2 and 11 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche in 20 Volumes and Approaches to Teaching Kafka’s Short Fiction (1995). He is Editor-at-large of Journal of the Kafka Society of America and General Editor of book series Literary Conjugations.

A truly magisterial scholarly work on a writer who continues to inspire a small industry of academic labor… In his new 464-page book Gray has produced what may very well be the definitive text on Sebald for both languages and readerships.

• List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sebald’s Literary Séance1. Wittgenstein’s Ghost: Toward Understanding Sebald’s Literary Turn2. The Birth of the Prose Fictionalizer from the Spirit of Biographical Criticism: Schwindel. Gefühle3. Sebald’s Literary Refinement: “Dr. Henry Selwyn” and Its Textual Predecessor4. Neither Here Nor There: Exile as Dis-Placement in “Dr. Henry Selwyn”5. Sebald’s Ectopia: Homelessness and Alienated Heritage in “Max Aurach”/“Max Ferber”6. Fabulation and Metahistory: W. G. Sebald and the Problematic of Contemporary (German) Holocaust Fiction7. Sebald’s Segues: Performing Narrative Contingency in Die Ringe des Saturn8. Writing at the Roche Limit: Order and Entropy in Die Ringe des Saturn9. Narrating Environmental Catastrophe: Ecopsychology and Ecological Apocalypse in Sebald’s Corsica ProjectBibliographyIndex