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art press publishes Vila-Matas on W.G. Sebald

publication · 2026-04-23

art press publishes an excerpt from Enrique Vila-Matas's novel El Mal de Montano, which evokes the legendary figure of Winfried Georg Sebald. Sebald, born in Bavaria in 1944 and died in 2001 in Norwich, authored nine books including Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz. His emblematic work is marked by wandering and a sense of tragedy, resembling a vast plain from which ghosts of literary history emerge.

Key facts

  • art press publishes an excerpt from Enrique Vila-Matas's novel El Mal de Montano
  • The excerpt evokes the legendary figure of W.G. Sebald
  • Sebald was born in Bavaria in 1944
  • Sebald died in 2001 in Norwich
  • Sebald authored nine books including Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz
  • Sebald's work is characterized by wandering and a sense of tragedy

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Artists

  • Winfried Georg Sebald
  • Enrique Vila-Matas

Institutions

  • art press

Locations

  • Bavaria
  • Germany
  • Norwich
  • United Kingdom

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