![]() History also has come to Sebald’s prose in the form of real documents: receipts, memos, letters, photographs, and many others illustrating the multiple layers of novelistic space and time. Sebald repeatedly wrote about them as a historian of literature. Sebald’s hero is a lone traveler making his journey through the countries and times inheriting the literary pilgrimages of Rousseau and Gottfried Keller, Adalbert Stifter and Robert Walser. The author makes conscious attempts to detect the unmistakable traces of disasters, to understand their complexity and to commemorate them with a power of the word. The subject of the essays and novels by Sebald ( Vertigo, 1990 The Emigrants, 1996 The Rings of Saturn, 1995 Austerlitz, 2001) is a long-standing and recent history of Germany and Europe from the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London in the XVII century until the Holocaust in the XX century. ![]()
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