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Mapping Babel: Language and Exile in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz

Jessica Dubow, Richard Steadman-Jones
New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 3–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1434488
Published: 01 February 2012
...Jessica Dubow; Richard Steadman-Jones W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz tells a story of inexplicable origins. In the figure of this child of the Kindertransport , Sebald addresses the traumas of the exilic subject and the impossibility of responding to an irredeemable history. But Austerlitz is also...
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Confounded Dwelling: Architectures of Association in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Louis Klee
New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 99–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9305519
Published: 01 November 2021
... Robertson, “Playing House” As Theodor W. Adorno once said of Franz Kafka, so we may say of W. G. Sebald: what baffles and eludes us in his work may one day provide the key to the whole. 1 Sebald’s rise to international acclaim was meteoric, the critical consensus of his accomplishment swift; yet...
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Against Memory as Justice

Benjamin Robinson
New German Critique (2006) 33 (2 (98)): 135–160.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-007
Published: 01 August 2006
... return to Sebald to suggest that the discussion of air war he broached likewise unsettles the Habermasian conviction that German constitutionality has to be anchored in a potent foundational memory. In the fi nal sections, I oppose the politicized memories of failed statehood at the far horizons...
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The Place of Rubble in the Trümmerfilm

Eric Rentschler
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 9–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-002
Published: 01 August 2010
... little attention to the true victims of Ger- man violence.23 By and large, the Trümmerfilm is more concerned with moving forward, with reconstructing the nation rather than reconsidering its past. In crucial regards, the rhetoric of Trümmerfilm criticism anticipates W. G. Sebald’s “Air War...
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Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West Germany

Amir Engel
New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-8288097
Published: 01 August 2020
... of the postwar era in Europe. 7 There is, he says, something latent or haunted in postwar European culture. It is a place that can neither forget its demons nor confront them. This mood is also powerfully created by W. G. Sebald in both his fiction and nonfiction work. Sebald’s fiction is indeed known...
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Ruins of the Cold War

Yuliya Komska
New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 155–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-027
Published: 01 February 2011
... unprecedentedness, has become a pervasive qualifier of the postwar ruin.22 This has meant that provincial safe harbors (i.e., Heimat in its most traditional definition), as W. G. Sebald reminds his readers at the opening of his influential On the Natural History of Destruction, have been remembered...
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Fragile Matters: Literature and the Scene of Torture

Isabel Capeloa Gil
New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 119–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3329223
Published: 01 February 2016
... . 2005 . “The Humanities in a Posthumanist World.” PMLA 120 , no. 1 : 724 – 33 . Sebald W. G. 1990 . “Jean Améry und Primo Levi.” In über Jean Améry , edited by Heidelberger-Leonard Irene , 115 – 23 . Heidelberg : Winter . ———. 2008 . “Mit den Augen des Nachtvogels...
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Longing for the Sonderweg

Enzo Traverso
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 205–215.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-10708461
Published: 01 November 2023
... linguistic universe, that is, seen by many as not truly belonging to the cultural context of the FRG (this is obviously also true for Elfriede Jelinek). It is significant that the most original and creative writer of this era of “normality” was W. G. Sebald, a novelist who had left Germany at the age...
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Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance

Kai Evers
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965290
Published: 01 November 2022
... , as Weiss suggested, or an example of mask narration with the narrator speaking reliably with the author’s voice, the novel presents a subversive and disorienting variant of mask narration. Read as a Wunschautobiographie , the novel would turn, as it did for W. G. Sebald, into a retrospective improvement...
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Intermediality and the Topography of Memory in Alexander Kluge

Bernhard Malkmus
New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 231–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2009-007
Published: 01 August 2009
... and the Topography of Memory in Alexander Kluge Bernhard Malkmus W. G. Sebald referred to Alexander Kluge as one of the most important com- mentators on postwar German history. He felt particularly compelled by Kluge’s literary rendition of history as archaeology...
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A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin

Eric Bulson
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 49–72.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-004
Published: 01 August 2010
... and a half million homes, and left seven million home- less. Berlin is the one place where the destruction of the air wars is imagined in extensive detail from the street. Long before W. G. Sebald’s “Luftkrieg und Literatur” (“Air War and Literature Pynchon asked his audience of primar- ily British...
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Introduction

Brad Prager
New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 1–8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2753540
Published: 01 November 2014
... suffering was a prelude to the era that W. G. Sebald calls a period of self-regard in which Germans were enjoined to look forward and not back.20 The historian Tony Judt describes how German public figures in the 1940s and 1950s avoided references to the Final Solution, and Nicolas Berg documents...
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German Painting in the Cold War

Andreas Huyssen
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-011
Published: 01 August 2010
..., such as Wolfgang Koeppen’s novels Pigeons on the Grass (1951; trans. 1988) and Death in Rome (1954; trans. 1961), confronted explicitly and in for- mally demanding ways what W. G. Sebald has called “the real state of material and moral ruin in which the country found itself.”2 As denazification was cut...
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Introduction

Nitzan Lebovic
New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 1–6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2008-010
Published: 01 November 2008
..., On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald (Chicago: University of Chi- cago Press, 2006), 13–14. 12. Scott Horton, “The Weimar President,” Harper’s Magazine, August 23, 2007, www.harpers .org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000996. 13. For an extreme example see the references to the 1938 Munich agreement...
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Marx as a Model and Question: Alexander Kluge’s Critical Inquiries

Dorothea Walzer, Mari Jarris
New German Critique (2020) 47 (1 (139)): 25–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-7908364
Published: 01 February 2020
... and Obstinacy , 8). 34. Sebald, “Zwischen Geschichte und Naturgeschichte.” 35. Fore, Introduction, 22. 36. Fore, Introduction, 34. 37. Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts,” 92 ; translation modified. 38. Weber, “Frage,” 763 . 39. On Kluge’s approach...
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“After the Massacre of Illusions”: Specters of the German Democratic Republic in the Work of Volker Braun

Karen Leeder
New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 103–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-1550881
Published: 01 August 2012
... in recent work.5 This interest can be seen across the board—from Elfriede Jelinek or W. G. Sebald to Christa Wolf, Walter Kempowski, or Judith Hermann—and boasts especially a repertoire of phantoms, specters, vampires, and undead that is enormously suggestive. A recent study spoke of a “boom...
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Introduction

David Bathrick, Anson Rabinbach
New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-001
Published: 01 August 2010
... the fear of nuclear war in the future is played out in Pynchon’s cities of the past. In dialogue with W. G. Sebald’s lecture “Air War and Literature” (1997) as well as Jörg Friedrich’s Brand (Fire, 2002), Bulson suggests that there has been, among some critics, a tendency to downplay, perhaps...
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The Child in the Dark: On Child Abuse in Robert Walser

Barbara N. Nagel
New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 107–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9734833
Published: 01 August 2022
... renowned they may be. Hermann Hesse and Susan Sontag, for example, successfully advertised a pacifist image of Walser; 8 W. G. Sebald and J. M. Coetzee access Walser’s texts through his experience with mental illness and institutionalization, that is, in elegiac form: “His own uneventful yet in its way...
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Erich Auerbach’s Figural Interpretation and the Uncanny Jew

Martin Elsky
New German Critique (2025) 52 (1 (154)): 1–29.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-11503057
Published: 01 February 2025
... attachment to a nonnational medieval philology with Rosenzweig’s position on the Jewish Unheimliche . Both were reacting to the crisis of German nationhood in the wake of World War I; both were skeptical of the idea of a nationalist Heimat ; both were prescient about what W. G. Sebald dubbed unheimliche...
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For Future Reference: A Twenty-First-Century Reading of Peter Weiss’s Poetics of Parataxis and Scenes of Walking

Kaisa Kaakinen
New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 93–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-9965332
Published: 01 November 2022
... . Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary: Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald . New York : Palgrave , 2017 . Kaakinen Kaisa . “ Entangled Histories and Divided Audiences: Overhearing Joseph Conrad, W. G. Sebald, and Dan Jacobson .” Journal of Baltic Studies 51 , no. 3 ( 2020 ): 373...
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