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- Title
Blinder Fleck - Zur Reflexion der Gewalt der Darstellung bei W.G. Sebald.
- Authors
Mosbach, Bettina
- Abstract
In Luftkrieg und Literatur as in his study Mythus der Zerstörung im Werk Döblins, Sebald opposes the reproduction of violence through the expressive mode of the literary text. According to Sebald, Alfred Döblin's style constitutes a mimetic approach to violence, which essentially aims to overwhelm the reader's reflective ability. Against the model of a literature corrupted by violence, Sebald confirms the poetological counter model of 'reflective distance', which is crucially linked to the construction of a 'melancholic' point of view. Interestingly, this counter model has itself been read as a form of implicit violence. The present essay argues that the supposed violence of the literary form is crucial to the auto-reflective construction of Sebald's texts. Violence is reflected in Sebald as an aporetic aspect of representation, which inevitably invades the text in the very attempt of dissociation. The 'aggressive' aspect of representation, paradoxically, constitutes its 'blind spot' and, as such, its crucial object at the same time.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; SEBALD, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001; EXPATRIATE authors; VIOLENCE in literature; LITERARY form
- Publication
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur Neueren Germanistik, 2009, Vol 72, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0304-6257
- Publication type
Essay