1st Edition

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

By Dora Osborne Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

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.

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

Biography

Dora Osborne