Bibliograph

W.G. Sebald, history, memory, trauma, edited by Scott Denham, Mark McCulloh

Type

Label

W.G. Sebald, history, memory, trauma, edited by Scott Denham, Mark McCulloh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-382) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

W.G. Sebald

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Scott Denham, Mark McCulloh

Series statement

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, v. 1

Sub title

history, memory, trauma

Summary

The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 - 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ("Die Ausgewanderten", "Austerlitz", "Luftkrieg und Literatur"). His writing is marked by a unique `hybridity' that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres. He employs layers of literary and motion picture allusions that contribute to a sometimes enigmatic, sometimes intimately familiar mood; his dominant mode is melancholy. The contributions of this anthology examine W. G. Sebald as narrator and pensive observer of history. The book includes a previously unpublished interview with Sebald from 1998

Target audience

specialized

Classification