Why do queer bachelors and homosexual desire haunt the works of the German writer W
Introduction: Naegeli's Bones 1. W. G. Sebald's Lehrjahre: Bourgeois Sexuality and its Discontents 2. Bachelors in Feather Boas: Masculinity Gone Astray 3. The Ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah: Queer Orientalism and Colonialism 4. Eros in Venice: The Strange Case of Dr S. and Dr K. 5. Conclusion