The Relationship between Text and Image in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz Cover Image

Szöveg és kép viszonya W. G. Sebald Austerlitz című művében
The Relationship between Text and Image in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Author(s): Judit Pieldner
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: narration; trauma; memory; identity; photography

Summary/Abstract: The narrative-poetical specificities of W. G. Sebald’s works – the first-person narration whose narratorial voice hides a “Sebald-like” figure, the border-crossings between reality and fiction, the blend of the generic specificities of memoir, travel journal and essay as well as the illustrations, photos, paintings, drawings, maps, etc. – systematically inserted in the text make the Sebaldian textual universe idiosyncratic and recognizable. Thus, Sebald’s essay-novels contain not only texts but also pictures, which display the literary text as the remix of the verbal and the visual, as a remediated scene. The present study aims to examine this visual-textual scene in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: III
  • Page Range: 81-88
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian