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

    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