Teaching in the small school after the war, Bereyter found a passion for his students while living a lonely, quiet life. A quarter Jewish, he found employment difficult in the period leading up to the Second World War, although he eventually served in the Wehrmacht. Paul Bereyter was the narrator's childhood teacher in a town referenced in the text only as "S". Selwyn, and the other members of his household, were loosely based upon the family and staff who resided in the house in Wymondham (Norfolk, UK) in which Sebald rented a room when he first took up his post as a lecturer in European literature at the University of East Anglia, in 1970. 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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