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from Part I - Biographical Aspects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2023
Sebald’s literary life began in Manchester. The short period he spent there (1966-70) left a lasting imprint on his writing, which this essay will explore through the three texts most directly inspired by the city: his 1967 poem ‘Bleston: A Mancunian Cantical’, the long prose poem Nach der Natur, and the fourth section of The Emigrants (‘Max Ferber’). These works reveal the aspects of Manchester most significant to Sebald: his encounters with an ‘industrial wasteland’, the Mancunian Jewish community, and Michel Butor’s 1956 novel, set in a fictionalized version of Manchester, L’Emploi du temps.
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