Zum Thema Messianismus im Werk D�blins

Sebald, Winfried Georg

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“…Sebald's two interests are linked by the theme of 'messianism'. A paper from early 1974 on 'The law of ignominy: authority, messianism and exile in The Castle' (Sebald, 1976; BU: 87-103) is bracketed chronologically by two essays on Döblin's interest in aspects of the same topic: a piece in the Frankfurter Rundschau entitled 'Utopie und Paradies: Phantasie über ein Thema von Döblin' (Sebald, 1971) and an essay in Neophilologus (based on the final pages of his dissertation) 'Zum Thema Messianismus im Werk Döblins' (Sebald, 1975). Indeed, 'messianism' was one of the principal themes of his book on Döblin.…”

Section: The 1960s: Sebald's Dialectical Reading Of Sternheimmentioning

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The shadow of resistance: W. G. Sebald and the Frankfurt School

Hutchinson

2011

Journal of European Studies

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Sebald's views on history and art were determined early on by his engagement with the leading thinkers of the Frankfurt School, namely Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse. From his earliest postgraduate research in the 1960s to his latest prose fiction in 2001, Sebald's work bears signs of their influence at every level. This article traces this influence in three main phases. Initially, it establishes the main tenets underpinning Sebald's interest in their thought. This interest is then followed through his books on Sternheim and Döblin, in order to establish the extent of the impact of the Frankfurt School on his formative years. After this reconstruction of the methodology in his early critical work, the article then assesses the consequences of Sebald's interest in the Frankfurt School for his later prose fiction, highlighting in particular his dialectical syntax, his critique of the Enlightenment idea of progress, and his taste for certain kinds of modernist artists.

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Section: The 1960s: Sebald's Dialectical Reading Of Sternheimmentioning

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The shadow of resistance: W. G. Sebald and the Frankfurt School

Hutchinson

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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German Nostalgia? Remembering German-Jewish Life in W. G. Sebald'sDie AusgewandertenandAusterlitz

Taberner

2004

The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory

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Zum Thema Messianismus im Werk D�blins

Cited by 3 publications

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The shadow of resistance: W. G. Sebald and the Frankfurt School

The shadow of resistance: W. G. Sebald and the Frankfurt School

Dexter – sinister

German Nostalgia? Remembering German-Jewish Life in W. G. Sebald'sDie AusgewandertenandAusterlitz

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