Academic literature on the topic 'W. G. Sebald'

Les oeuvres de J. M Coetzee, I. Kertész, W. G. Sebald témoignent d'un effort spécifique du littéraire pour répliquer à la violence des évènements qui ont forgé la conscience historique du 20e siècle. A la pression d'un réel historique des évènements inassimilable et destructeur, ces écrivains répondent par un travail d'écriture et de clarification soucieux à la fois de son inscription dans un champ politique et de ses limites philosophiques. .<br>The literary works of J. M Coetzee, I. Kertész and W. G. Sebald confront the violent events that have shaped the historical consciousness of the twentieth century with the specific tools of literature and fiction. In an effort to respond to the pressure of a destructive historical reality that is difficult to assimilate, these writers have sought to clarify their position within a political and philosophical field. .

Le Français Patrick Modiano (1945-), l’Allemand W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) et l’Autrichien Fred Wander (1917-2006) : trois écrivains de l’errance, affectés par l’absence des témoins, la disparition des traces et les lacunes du passé au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Leurs oeuvres sont hantées par les blancs de la mémoire et les brisures identitaires : exilés contraints de quitter leur Heimat afin d’êtres sauvés du nazisme, ou bien exilés volontaires lorsqu’ils entreprennent des voyages identitaires, les personnages des trois auteurs sont construits de ruines, de pièces manquantes. Les trous de mémoire, les failles de l’être, les incertitudes et les dialogues avec le hors-texte (l’espace extérieur, l’Histoire passée, la mémoire de chacun, le lecteur, les oeuvres antérieures) constituent la matière même de l’écriture. Errant entre fiction et réalité, oscillant entre roman, (auto)biographie, roman de formation, rapport d’enquête et mémoires, Voyage de noces et Dora Bruder de Modiano, Les Émigrants et Austerlitz de Sebald, Hôtel Baalbek et Das gute Leben de Wander sont des récits hybrides qui entremêlent les voix, brouillent les pistes, rassemblent mémoire collective, individuelle et culturelle et semblent laisser le sens des textes (en termes de direction, voire de fin, et de signification) et leur transmission en suspens. L’errance investit dès lors l’identité et la mémoire des textes eux-mêmes et renouvelle la question de la tâche dulecteur après 1945<br>The French writer Patrick Modiano (1945-), the German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian writer Fred Wander (1917-2006) consider the relationship between errance and literature after 1945: They are moved by the absence of the witnesses and the disparition of the past after World War II. Their books are haunted by memory lapses and identity disorder and they present a lot of trips accross worlds ; the characters of Modiano, Sebald and Wander are in exile or in transit, far away from their Heimat, and there are searching for missing peaces of their identity. The memory gaps and errors, the difficulty of being, the uncertainties and the dialogues with the out of text world (the space outside the text, the past History, the recall, the reader, the intertextuality and intermediality) compose the matter of writing. The books by the three writers, Honeymoon and Dora Bruder by Modiano, The Emigrants and Austerlitz by Sebald, Hôtel Baalbek and Das gute Leben by Wander, are wandering between fiction and reality and not corresponding the literary norms: are they novels,Bildungsromane, investigation reports, memoirs, or (auto)biographies? These hybrid and multi-level narratives combine voices, confuse the issue, collect the individual, collective and cultural memory and keep the meaning and the direction of the texts, so the narrative transmission, in suspense. The trope of errance leads also to the exploration of the identity and the memory of the texts themselves and the (re)consideration of the role of the reader after 1945

A presente dissertação de mestrado pretende analisar como o escritor alemão W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) enxerga a história, a memória e a ficção nos seus quatro livros em prosa. As narrativas desse autor lançam mão do procedimento de colecionar diversas pistas e fragmentos do passado, que surgem por meio de encontros com pessoas, imagens, objetos, paisagens e lugares da memória - algo que nos remete ao historiador arqueólogo-colecionador que Walter Benjamin dizia ser necessário para enxergar o passado de um modo crítico. Dividido em três capítulos, que tratam do deslocamento como modo de pensar, da elaboração da memória e da história em Sebald, esse trabalho buscou verificar relações entre a história e a literatura, tomando a obra singular desse autor como exemplo de que a ficção é uma ferramenta essencial para se apreender o passado.<br>The aim of this dissertation is to analyze how German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) talks about History, Memory and Fiction in his four prose books. The narratives of this author act by collecting several trails and fragments from the past through encounters with people, images, objects landscapes and places of memory - something that recall us of the historian who should be like an archeologist or a collector that Walter Benjamin thought necessary to understand and think critically about the ruins of History. Divided by three chapters - about the displacement as a way of thinking, the elaboration of memory and about History in literary narratives - this work has tried to deal with the connections between History and Literature by taking the singular work of a writer as an example that fiction makes it possible to have a different relationship with the past.