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Silent Catastrophes
W. G. Sebald
其他書名
Essays in Austrian Literature
出版Penguin Random House, 2025-01-23
主題History / Europe / Austria & HungaryLiterary Collections / EssaysLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / GermanLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
ISBN02411441919780241144190
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-Ca00AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighbouring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation by Germany, meant that concepts such as 'home/land', 'borderland' and 'exile' occupy a prominent role in its literature, just as they would in Sebald's own.

Through a series of remarkable close readings of texts by Bernhard, Stifter, Kafka, Handke, Roth and more, Sebald charts both the pathologies which so often drove their work and the seismic historical forces which shaped them. This sequence of essays will be a revelation to Sebald's English-language readers, tracing as they do so many of the themes which animate his own literary writings, to which these essays form a kind of prelude.