Die mädchen aus der Feenwelt - Bemerkungen zu liebe und prostitution mit bezügen zu Raimund, Schnitzler und Horvath

Sebald, Winfried Georg

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“…The former essay is developed from an incisive shorter piece that showed how the prominent social reality of prostitution in late bourgeois society was mythologized in its literature (Sebald, 1983). In Schnitzler's story, Sebald finds the same sexual economy exposed with exceptional honesty.…”

Section: History As Declinementioning

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“…The decline of bourgeois society is addressed in two of Sebald's most perceptive essays: those dealing with Schnitzler's Traumnovelle and Hofmannsthal's unfinished novel Andreas. The former essay is developed from an incisive shorter piece that showed how the prominent social reality of prostitution in late bourgeois society was mythologized in its literature (Sebald, 1983). In Schnitzler's story, Sebald finds the same sexual economy exposed with exceptional honesty.…”

Section: History As Declinementioning

confidence: 99%

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W. G. Sebald as a critic of Austrian literature

Robertson¹

2011

Journal of European Studies

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Rejecting the conservative study of German literature that he encountered as a student, Sebald found inspiration in Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. He re-reads Austrian literature as an expression not of conservative attachment to a home, but of displacement from any home. He also explores the instabilities of the bourgeois age as revealed in fiction by Sealsfield, Stifter, Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal, and places their narratives within a wider history of colonial exploitation and ecological destruction. He then argues that the dislocation of language by schizophrenics like the poet Ernst Herbeck discloses a primitive substratum prior to the estrangement from nature and subjection to the administration of modernity. Reflections, especially Kafka's, on the death of the individual, humanity and ultimately the universe itself, lead Sebald to empathize with the messianic images found in Benjamin and other Austrian writers.

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Section: History As Declinementioning

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Section: History As Declinementioning

confidence: 99%

W. G. Sebald as a critic of Austrian literature

Robertson¹

2011

Journal of European Studies

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Dexter – sinister

Sheppard

2005

Journal of European Studies

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This essay, written by a former colleague and friend of the late W. G. Sebald, was conceived initially as a short review of a collection of essays –W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, edited by Jonathan Long and Anne Whitehead – that appeared in 2004. As such it involves no single argument. Rather, it is a series of responses to the essays that constitute the book. The essay also draws on the annotated books in Sebald's library (now in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach/Neckar), personal reminiscence and extensive familiarity with all aspects of Sebald's work (including forgotten reviews from the 1970s and 1980s, academic articles, polemical pieces, variant versions of literary works that were published in the 1980s, and the 30 or so interviews that Sebald gave in the 1990s). By doing this, I wish to suggest three things: (1) that a good understand of Sebald the academic and critic can help us better understand his literary work; (2) that a diachronic understanding of the way Sebald's mind develops from 1963 onwards can help us appreciate more fully the central concerns of his literary work; (3) that the reader should approach Sebald's narratives and assertions in interviews with a benign scepticism.

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Die mädchen aus der Feenwelt - Bemerkungen zu liebe und prostitution mit bezügen zu Raimund, Schnitzler und Horvath

Cited by 2 publications

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W. G. Sebald as a critic of Austrian literature

W. G. Sebald as a critic of Austrian literature

Dexter – sinister

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