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Sebald the Pilgrim: Literary Testimonies of the Disaster

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2022

Abstract

W. G.

Sebald brought a distinctive form of post-disaster writing to prose. Drawing on the canon of literary history, memoirs and testimonies, he creates textual mosaics in which he constructs a postcatastrophic narrative as a new art form that ranges from the classical novel to the photographic essay.