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Sebald, Austerlitz

Optional extra reading: "The Limits of Transference: Theories of Memory and Photography in

W.G.Sebald's Austerlitz" in Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory

ed Astrid Eril and Ann Rigney

Historical journey – cultural memory

Form a personal identity

Rescued from 2

world war

He feels alienated, doesn’t feel at home

Upbringing in whales

Through architecture we can understand his feelings

Too big in whales, too much space – feeling of isolation, feelings of ease

Sense of detachment – stripped of his name, clothes and language

Teach at an English university

His charismatic way of talking is distorted when there was a change in language

Photographs as a motif in the novel

Tries to make connections with the photographs and his own life

Appealing to cultural memory to find an identity

Serves a way to serve a relationship between trauma and memory

The battle? Significant? The dangers of loss – deterioration, detrimental – feeling lost

Insomnia draws to Liverpool station mental asylum – make connection with other peoples

suffering and buildings with his own

Buildings are what remains after civilisation carries on an humans die

Final sentence, paragraph, final motion no closure, deep nostalgia

Disorientation he feels, that gradually leads him home and find his roots again,

disorientation leads to some sense of orientation

Links with previous works, astrid (from previous)

Cultural memory and dynamics – media plays such a role i- erll and ridney – module page –

the introduction

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Dislocation is the ultimate tragedy – subtly highlights how essential finding yourself,

understanding yourself, history and its implications

He may not understand its implications, only then he may find himself = collection of facts,

removed from a sense of belonging passion and drive

Relationship between text and image – psychoanalytical point, other includes: fact and

fiction – inform

Our whole lives we try to piece things together with memory to understand what

experiences make us who we are – why do we remember certain things

Interesting because we continuously have flashes of images in our head but because they

are displaced, random they start to or we attempt to make sense of this when we

rationalise our thoughts

To support his memory or prompt his memory he provides images

How do we attempt to rationalise our thoughts? Through the power of utterances, words,

then we can think about the engagement and relationship between words and image

He is rationalising disorientated images in the mind with photographs and words – its to

offer some form of clarity

The process of that requires them putting them side to side

Text is inadequate – words can’t describe – language isn’t enough

I think its interesting he uses images instead of everything being illustration so made up

characters – comment on the displacement the human experience can have –

Some places he hasn’t visited that he wrote about – writing about pictures he’s seen

Photographs is normally documentary

Less about an individual and more about a collective culture

Perhaps the people have been through the same rela, lived lives

Long sentences, unbroken texts – the passage for 7 pages – long stream of conscious

thoughts

Relates to his insomnia – unable to sleep, so he’s not in a state of mind where he is absent

within thought – the brain is awake, therefore he is experiencing thoughts accompanied by

images

Image is more powerful – image comes first, it verifies our thoughts

Can weave fiction with fact – image can be misinterpreted

How do fictional characters have pictures – relationship between storytelling, and the real –

may start to read as if its an autobiograpghy – blurring the boundary between fictional

boundaries

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Sebald, Austerlitz Optional extra reading: "The Limits of Transference: Theories of Memory and Photography in W.G.Sebald's Austerlitz" in Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory ed Astrid Eril and Ann Rigney Historical journey – cultural memory Form a personal identity Rescued from 2nd world war He feels alienated, doesn’t feel at home Upbringing in whales Through architecture we can understand his feelings Too big in whales, too much space – feeling of isolation, feelings of ease Sense of detachment – stripped of his name, clothes and language Teach at an English university His charismatic way of talking is distorted when there was a change in language Photographs as a motif in the novel Tries to make connections with the photographs and his own life Appealing to cultural memory to find an identity Serves a way to serve a relationship between trauma and mem ...
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