Las contradicciones de la crítica
Until his belated emergence as an author of “fiction”, W. G. Sebald worked as a professor and a literary critic for two decades; as it happens with late bloomers, his previous critical pronouncements betray his personal stands in search of artistic –and even– ideological affiliation. In this pa...
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2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/fichas.php?idobjeto=13649 |
| Sumario: | Until his belated emergence as an author of “fiction”, W. G.
Sebald worked as a professor and a literary critic for two
decades; as it happens with late bloomers, his previous
critical pronouncements betray his personal stands in
search of artistic –and even– ideological affiliation. In this
paper we dwell on his impetuous essay on (against) Alfred
Andersch, which in view of its length and publication date
can be considered a summary of Sebald’s analytical
procedures. Here it shows clearly the biographical tendency
of Sebald as a reader, who resorts to textual reading only in
an auxiliary way, and it is worth wondering if this trend –
essentially anti-modernist– is not the one that fatefully
prevails in contemporary Germanic studies, as a result of
obvious external pressures. |
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