Sebald’s Pathographies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Foreword: The Sebald Phenomenon 1
4. Introduction: Two Languages, Two Audiences: The Tandem Literary OEuvres of W.G. Sebald 7
5. Introduction and Transcript of an interview given by Max Sebald 21
6. Section 1: Contexts & Influences
7. Kafka, Nabokov … Sebald: Intertextuality and Narratives of Redemption in Vertigo and The Emigrants 33
8. Sebald’s Pathographies 65
9. Sebald’s Elective and Other Affinities 77
10. In the Weavers’ Web: An Intertextual Approachto W.G. Sebald and Laurence Sterne 91
11. Sebald’s Kafka 105
12. Sebald’s Amateurs 127
13. Section 2: Narrative and Style
14. “A Time He Could Not Bear to Say Any More About”: Presence and Absence of the Narrator in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants 141
15. The Task of the Narrator: Moments of Symbolic Investiture in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 157
16. “Egg boxes stacked in a crate”: Narrative Status and its Implications 171
17. Speak no Evil, Write no Evil: In Search of a Usable Language of Destruction 183
18. On Exposure: Photography and Uncanny Memory in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten and Austerlitz 205
19. Realism, Photography,and Degrees of Uncertainty 219
20. Section 3: History and Trauma
21. The Dystopian Entwinement of Histories and Identities in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 233
22. Transcripts: An Ethics of Representation in The Emigrants 251
23. Landscape and Memory: Sebald’s Redemption of History 265
24. The Holocaust as the Still Point of the World in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants 279
25. W.G. Sebald’s Twentieth-Century Histories 291
26. Going Astray: Melancholy, Natural History, and the Image of Exile in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 301
27. No Foothold. Institutions and Buildings in W.G. Sebald’s Prose 315
28. The Experience of Destruction: W.G. Sebald, the Airwar, and Literature 335
29. W.G. Sebald and Structures of Testimony and Trauma: There are Spots of Mist That No Eye can Dispel 351
30. Backmatter 365