Beschreibung:
Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work
Introduction: Post-Postwar Literature 1. Traces of Trauma 2. The Terrors of Ice and Darkness: The Case of the Ice-Man 3. Narbenubersat': An Excess of Traces in the Dog King 4. Displacement, Dysfunction, and Erasure in the Emigrants 5. Blind Spots: Austerlitz 6. Conclusion