W.G. Sebald
Subtitle: image, archive, modernity
By: J.J. Long
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780748633883; 9780748633876
Subjects: Subjectivity in literature; German; Criticism and interpretation; Winfried Georg Sebald; Modernism (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM; Archives in literature; Literature and photography; European
Description: W.G. Sebald is widely acknowledged as one of the most significant writers to have emerged onto the global literary scene in recent decades, and is frequently mentioned in the same breath as Nabokov, Kafka, Borges, Calvino, Proust, and Primo Levi.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-201) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on References and Translations; 1. Introduction; PART 1; 2. The Collection; 3. The Photograph; 4. Discipline; PART 2; 5. Wonder: Vertigo; 6. Family Albums: The Emigrants; 7. The Ambulatory Narrative: The Rings of Saturn; 8. The Archival Subject: Austerlitz; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.