W.G. Sebald - Die dialektische Imagination

This book uses the annotations in W.G. Sebalda (TM)s private library (held in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach) to construct an interpretation of his prose style as fundamentally dialectical. Alongside his readings of writers such as Benjamin, Bernhard, Bassani, and LA(c)vi-Strauss, it uses in particular Adornoa (TM)s and Horkheimera (TM)s a žDialektik der AufklArunga oe to help develop a close reading of Sebalda (TM)s syntax and narrative structures. The key concern of Sebalda (TM)s prose emerges not as the Holocaust, but rather the dialectical processes of a sprogressa (TM) and a sregressiona (TM) inherent in history.