Detalls del llibre
This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell, the essays collected in this volume place Sebald's oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order to better understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics. Whilst opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas including dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary performance practices and the writings of H. G. Adler, the volume notably returns to the original German texts. The recurring themes identified in the essays ? from Sebald's carefully calibrated syntax to his self-consciousness about 'genre', from his interest in liminal spaces to his literal and metaphorical preoccupation with blindness and vision ? all suggest that the 'attempt at restitution' constitutes the very essence of Sebald's understanding of literature.
Llegir més - ISBN13 9780719088520
- ISBN10 0719088526
- Pàgines 336
- Any Edició 2013
- Fecha de publicación 19/11/2013
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W. G. Sebald (Alemany, Francès)
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- Manchester University Press (2013)
- 9780719088520



