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- Title
"Lines of Flight": History and Territory in The Rings of Solum.
- Authors
Ryan, Judith
- Abstract
The present essay draws comparisons between the labyrinthine structure of the narrative in The Rings of Saturn and the views on Kafka's narratives presented by Deleuze and Guattari in their book Kafka: For a Minor Literature, which Sebald cites in one of his essays on Austrian literature. In particular, Sebald's attempt to balance exile and escape owes much to Kafka's stories and to what Deleuze and Guattari term "lines of flight". The internal split between Sebald's original home in Germany and his new home in England makes his ramble through Suffolk into a palimpsest of German history. But the essay also argues that he ultimately becomes a kind of pilgrim (as suggested by the subtitle of Die Ringe des Saturn, "Eine englische Wallfahrt", which is missing in the English translation), through his attempt to draw our attention to the history and geography of natural and man-made destruction.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; NARRATION; RINGS of Saturn, The (Book : Sebald); SEBALD, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001; EXPATRIATE authors; FICTION writing
- Publication
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Neueren Germanistik, 2009, Vol 72, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0304-6257
- Publication type
Essay