Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

ISBN-13: 9780367601935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Dora Osborne

Opis

This book offers the first full-length study of W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. It examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives.

Spis treści

Introduction: Post-Postwar Literature 1. Traces of Trauma 2. The Terrors of Ice and Darkness: The Case of the Ice-Man 3. Narbenubersat': An Excess of Traces in the Dog King 4. Displacement, Dysfunction, and Erasure in the Emigrants 5. Blind Spots: Austerlitz 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Dora Osborne