Grenzen der Lebensbeschreibung. Adalbert Stifters letzte autobiographische Schriften

Schiffermuller, Isolde

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“…Stifter scholars often, disappointingly, read such passages merely as expressions of Stifter's personal neurosis (e.g. Schiffermüller, 2007), but Sebald goes further by finding in them intimations of a heretical, gnostic worldview. 6 When Stifter's balloonists discover that clouds, close up, resemble cold wet shrouds, or when the snowstorm obliterates all features of the landscape, the world is revealed in its true, deathly character.…”

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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: Schizophrenia As Protestmentioning

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W. G. Sebald as a critic of Austrian literature

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2011

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Grenzen der Lebensbeschreibung. Adalbert Stifters letzte autobiographische Schriften

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W. G. Sebald as a critic of Austrian literature

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