Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Sebaldian Ironies: From Postmodern Metafiction to Postsecular Redemption
Chapter 1: Catastrophe with Spectator: Remediating the Modernist Subject in The Rings of Saturn
Chapter 2: “The Extermination of the Voyager Who Turns into a Landscape”: Intermediality and Postsecular Redemption in The Rings of Saturn
Chapter 3: Interminable Journeys: Vertigo and Kafka’s “Wandering Jew of the Ocean”
Chapter 4: Metafictional Redemption: The Emigrants and Nabokov’s “Butterfly Man”
Chapter 5: “A Vision Intended for My Liberation”: Ironic Eschatology and Masculine Identity in Kafka, Sebald, and Magris
Chapter 6: “The Gift of Being Remembered”: Speak, Memory and Austerlitz
Chapter 7: “One Is Always at Home in One’s Past”: Austerlitz and The View from Castle Rock
Coda “In the Name of the Victims”: Memory, Redemption, Restitution
Notes
References
Index