Allgäu

Wolfinger, Kay (2023): Allgäu. In: Schütte, Uwe (ed.) : W. G. Sebald in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 3-10

Abstract

This essay examines W.G. Sebald’s relationship to the region of his birth, the Allgäu and explores its significance for his literary work. In his stories, he refers several times to his region of origin, to places and memories there, making his Allgäu past on the one hand a point of repulsion and on the other a reservoir of themes and images from which he draws for his prose. In this way, his “Heimat” (homeland) becomes literarily charged in a way that makes Sebald’s literary writings both fascinating and revelatory in terms of their poetics.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Faculties: Languages and Literatures > Department 1
• Subjects: 800 Literature > 830 German and related literatures
• ISBN: 978-1-009-05231-3 ; 978-1-316-51135-0
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Language: English