W. G. Sebald: Post-Memory, Word and Image
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W. G. Sebald, post-memory, word, imageAbstract
The aim of this article is to propose a reading of W. G. Sebald’s poetics based on the notion of “post-memory” and its specific contribution to the debate on the relations between word and image. I discuss, firstly, Sebald’s ekphrasis of Albrecht Altdorfer’s text in his poem “Nach der Natur” (1988), and secondly an appropriation of Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida in an interview. Finally, I propose a careful reading of one of the sections of Vertigo (1990), in which Franz Kafka’s is placed associated with Jean Paul. I argue that the border that rules the crossings between word and image also concerns the contact between memory and experience, leading to a reflection on the constitution of the historical subject and to his access to discourse and art.
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