![]() He commits suicide by inserting a gun in his mouth. He confides in Sebald about his Lithuanian Jewish family's immigration to England from Lithuania, and suspects that it is this secretive, alien past that contributed to the dissolution of his relationship with his wife. Selwyn fought in the First World War and has an interest in gardening and tending to animals. Henry Selwyn is the estranged husband of Sebald's landlady. As with most of Sebald's work, the text includes many black and white, unlabeled photographs and strays sharply from general formats of plot and narrative.ĭr. In The Emigrants, Sebald's narrator recounts his involvement with and the life stories of four different characters, all of whom are emigrants (to England and the United States). ![]() ![]() The English translation by Michael Hulse was first published in 1996. It won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize, and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal. The Emigrants ( German: Die Ausgewanderten) is a 1992 collection of narratives by the German writer W. ![]()
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