This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the
work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of
disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell,
the essays collected in this volume place Sebald's oeuvre within
the broader context of European culture in order to better
understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics. Whilst
opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas including
dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary
performance practices and the writings of H. G. Adler, the volume
notably returns to the original German texts. The recurring themes
identified in the essays - from Sebald's carefully calibrated
syntax to his self-consciousness about 'genre', from his interest
in liminal spaces to his literal and metaphorical preoccupation
with blindness and vision - all suggest that the 'attempt at
restitution' constitutes the very essence of Sebald's understanding
of literature. -- .
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