...He Ning; Claire Xue Li This essay discusses the role of photographs in Sebald’s Austerlitz . The author argues that photographs constitute a crucial paratext to the entire narrative, making possible the representation of traumatic memories through “the bricolage of words and images.” Engaging...

...Yahya Elsaghe; Sina Rahmani; Yahya Elsaghe Why does W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz escape from the laws of fictionality and factuality? How do so many of the people and place names inside of it start so improbably with the letter A ? Why do so many iterations of A —as initials, as markings...

...Isa Murdock-Hinrichs The essay analyzes Grant Gee’s and Stan Neumann’s transformations of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz into the cinematic medium. In reproducing Sebald’s methods, both filmmakers undermine traditional filmmaking conventions. By translating and appropriating...

...Sina Rahmani This essay explores the various ways in which W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz upends traditional understandings of the novel as a form. Specifically, it situates this “prose book of an undetermined kind” against the rise of the steel container as the dominant mode of commodity transportation...

...Maria Malikova; Timothy J. Haehn This essay reads “As Day and Night,” an essay W. G. Sebald wrote about artist and friend Jan Peter Tripp, as a complex and multilayered commentary on the role of both written and visual texts in the author’s oeuvre. It draws on Sebald’s Austerlitz as well...

... . Austerlitz . Translated by Bell Anthea . New York : Penguin . Sebald W. G. 2003 . On the Natural History of Destruction: With Essays on Alfred Andersch, Jean Améry, and Peter Weiss . Translated by Bell Anthea . London : Penguin . Sebald W. G. 2011 . “Auf ungeheuer...

... Directions . Sebald W. G. 1998 . The Rings of Saturn . Translated by Hulse Michael . New York : New Directions . Sebald W. G. 2000 . Vertigo . Translated by Hulse Michael . New York : New Directions . Sebald W. G. 2001 . Austerlitz . Translated by Bell...

... The Rings of Saturn Austerlitz Vertigo References Bigsby Christopher . 2001 . Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby: Volume 2 . Norwich : Arthur Miller Centre . Homberger Eric . 2001 . “ W. G. Sebald .” The Guardian . December 17 , 2001 . Jaggi Maya...

... titles translated into Hebrew The Emigrants and Austerlitz are summits of modern prose. boundary 2 47:3 (2020) DOI 10.1215/01903659- 8524467 © 2020 by Duke University Press Originally published in Yedioth Ahronoth (Tel Aviv, Israel) in 2009. Gevalt (or Oy, gevalt! ): a Yiddish exclamation of worry...

... Austerlitz notes, despite serving as an emblem of absolute power and of the ingenuity the engineers put to the service of that power, it is often our boundary 2 47:1 (2020) DOI 10.1215/01903659-7999532 © 2020 by Duke University Press Many thanks to the boundary 2 editorial collective and reviewers...

... : De Gruyter . Jeziorkowski Klaus . 2007 . “ Peripherie als Mitte Zur Ästhetik von Zivilität: W. G. Sebald und sein Roman ‘Austerlitz.’ ” In Verschiebebahnhöfe der Erinnerung: Zum Werk W. G. Sebalds , edited by Wintermeyer Ingo Sigurd Martin , 69 – 80 . Würzburg : Königshausen...