A Literature of Restitution

This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell, the essays collected in this volume place Sebald's oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order to better understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics.

Whilst opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas including dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary performance practices and the writings of H. G. Adler, the volume notably returns to the original German texts. The recurring themes identified in the essays – from Sebald's carefully calibrated syntax to his self-consciousness about 'genre', from his interest in liminal spaces to his literal and metaphorical preoccupation with blindness and vision – all suggest that the 'attempt at restitution' constitutes the very essence of Sebald's understanding of literature.

Jeannette Baxter is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Valerie Henitiuk is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Translation and Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent.

Introduction: A quoi bon la littérature?
Foreword:Anthea Bell: Translating W. G. Sebald, with and without the Author
Part One: Translation and Style
1. W. G. Sebald's Three-Letter Word: On the Parallel World of the English Translations
Arthur Williams (University of Bradford)
2. Encounter and Cry: W. G. Sebald as Poet
George Szirtes (University of East Anglia)
3. Unquiet Prose: Sebald and the Writing of the Negative
Shane Weller (University of Kent)
Part Two: Texts and Contexts
4. Surrealist Vertigo in Schwindel. Gefühle.
Jeannette Baxter (Anglia Ruskin University)
5. Memoirs of the Blind: W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten
Dora Osborne (Oxford University)
6. 'Like refugees who have come through dreadful ordeals': The Theme of the Anglo-Irish in Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt
Helen Finch (University of Leeds)
7. The Arca Project: W. G. Sebald's Corsica
Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster University)
8. Time, Testament, and Theresienstadt: The Entwined Narratives of W. G. Sebald and H. G. Adler
Peter Filkins (Bard College)
9. Stations, Dark Rooms, and False Worlds in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
David Darby (University of Western Ontario)
Part Three: 'Prose' and photography
10. Fields of Association: W. G. Sebald and Contemporary Performance Practices
Simon Murray (Glasgow University)
11. Still Life, Portrait, Photograph, Narrative in the Work of W. G. Sebald
Clive Scott (University of East Anglia)
12. The Return of the Repressed Mother in W. G. Sebald's Prose
Graley Herren (Xavier University)
13. The Question of Genre in Sebald's 'Prose'
Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Bibliography
Index

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