Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: The Adler-Sebald Intertextual Relationship as Paradigm for Intergenerational Literary Testimony 1
6. Part I. Intertexts in Context
7. 1: Opening Address: The Connections between H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald, from a Personal Perspective 25
8. 2: Memory’s Witness—Witnessing Memory 29
9. 3: Writing the Medusa: A Documentation of H. G. Adler and Theresienstadt in W. G. Sebald’s Library 55
10. Part II. Witnessing Trauma and the Poetics of Witnessing
11. 4: Bearing Witness: The Poetics of H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald 81
12. 5: “Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte(n)”: Memory and Intertextuality in H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald 112
13. 6: “Der Autor zwischen Literatur und Politik”: H. G. Adler’s “Engagement” and W. G. Sebald’s “Restitution” 137
14. Part III. Memory, Memorialization and the Re-Presentation of History
15. 7: Memory, Witness, and the (Holocaust) Museum in H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald 159
16. 8: History, Emotions, Literature: The Representation of Theresienstadt in H. G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941–1945: Das Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 180
17. 9: The Kafkaesque in H. G. Adler’s and W. G. Sebald’s Literary Historiographies 201
18. 10: Generational Conflicts, Generational Affinities: Broch, Adorno, Adler, Sebald 232
19. 11: “Der verwerfliche Literaturbetrieb unserer Epoche”: H. G. Adler and the Postwar West German “Literary Field” 254
20. Afterword 275
21. Bibliography 277
22. Contributors 297
23. Index 301