The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance

Index

Abba (Pagis), 244, 250, 253–54, 266–72 abstraction, in Canetti’s and von Rezzori’s works, 162 Aciman, André, 26–27, 48; arbitrage, 214, 228, 229, 233; on assimilation, 221; belonging or fixity in works, 233; biographical information, 215; borders, 233–34; on Canetti, 38; Canetti compared with, 222; cemeteries in works, 14, 214–15; classicism or xenophobia in works, 232–33; on dislocation, 220; Egypt in works, 233–34; exile in works, 227–28; False Papers, 9, 37, 212–14, 220, 222, 228, 231–34; fictional identity in works, 230; France in works, 233; on Freud, 221; identity and, 229–30, 237; on Jewishness, 226–27, 229–30, 237; Letters of Transit, 212, 219, 220, 238; marranism, 227–28, 233; on memory, 213–14; metaphor in works, 235; nostalgia and, 229, 238–39; Out of Egypt, 212, 223, 227–28, 229, 236; palintropism and, 37; place in works, 227–28; “Reflections of an Uncertain Jew,” 221, 226–27, 230; reification of the literary by, 238; Said compared with, 215, 220, 222, 226–27, 238–39; on Sebald , 7, 50, 293n57; secularism and, 215; as Sephardic, 236–37; “Temporizing ,” 227–28, 229; and von Rezzori, 38, 328n8; 333n33 Adorno, Theodor, 224 advenience, 24, 25, 38, 48 Aeneid (Virgil), 73 After the Last Sky (Said), 216, 222–23, 234–35, 236, 342n25 Agnon, S. Y. (“A Book That Was Lost”), 75–76, 105, 303nn48–49 Alcalay, Ammiel, 238, 343n34 Aleichem, Sholem, 303n48 Alexandria, 226, 229, 231, 233, 234, 236, 256, 259; as cosmopolitan, 234; Said on, 291n44 The Alexandria Quartet (Durrell), 213, 231 alibi, 7, 23, 27, 285n12 allusion: Appelfeld’s works and precursor texts, 74–76, 303n46; in Arabesques (Shammas), 243–44, 278; in Pagis’s works, 271; in Sebald’s works, 301n41 alphabet letters: as relics, 74; as stolen, 259 Alter, Robert, 246, 301n42 Alterman, Natan, 243 Altieri, Charles, 26 Amichai, Yehuda, 80, 247, 294n5, 346– 47n13 Anders, Jaroslaw, 152 “Anecdote of the Jar” (Stevens), in Arabesques , 278 Angelus Novus (Klee), 112 apatride: palintropism and, 27, 60; as seer, 289n32 379 Index Appelfeld, Aharon: assimilation and, 47; “Buried Homeland,” 33, 35, 45, 73, 159, 296nn8–10, 297n14, 305n58; on Canetti, 38; critics on, 77, 294–95n5; death in works of, 73, 76–77, 92; Hebrew as language of works, 44, 80; on Holocaust and memory, 294n2; Holocaust as subject of works, 44; identity issues, 44, 80, 93; Israel and, 296n9; Jewish identity, 93, 295–96n8; “The Kafka Connection,” 295n8; language in works, 303–4n50, 305n59; movement in works, 46; narrative stance of, 295–96n8, 295n7; Pagis and, 296n9; “A Perpetual Story of Departure,” 296n10; precursor texts for, 74–76, 303n48; Proust and, 44; Sebald compared with, 46–47; Sipur Hayim (Story of a Life), 45, 294n2, 296n9, 305n59; stasis in works, 46; wandering in works, 75. See also The Iron Tracks (Appelfeld) arabesque, 241–42; critics on, 265–66; as literary structure, 242–43, 343n1, 350n31; midbar and literary structure, 245; as rhetorical strategy, 272–74 Arabesques (Shammas), 242, 245–47, 249– 50, 254, 256–59, 261–65, 277; allusion in, 243–44, 278; doubles or doubling in, 258, 266, 275, 348n21, 349n25; language in, 246; as occulted text, 272– 73, 275–76; weaving images, 273 ‘Araidi, Na’im, 237 arbitrage, 214, 228, 229, 233 Archimboldo, Guiseppe, 152 archive of the feet, xiii, 34, 223 Arditti, Bernhard, 176 Argentina: Gombrowicz and, 97, 99, 100– 101, 127, 129–30; as reduplication or displaced Poland, 99, 153, 293n57 art: as alienating, 111–12; Angelus Novus (Klee), 112; The Blinding of Samson (Rembrandt), 177; creative destruction, 67–68; as cultural possession, 102–4; Levinas on, 112, 125; paintings as nets in Canetti’s works, 177; Schulz’s murals, 102–7, 135, 152, 312n16; in Sebald’s The Emigrants, 66–68 “The Art of Contraction” (Pagis), 263 The Aspern Papers (James), 168 assimilation: Aciman on, 221; Appelfeld and, 47, 92; as impossible, 250 Atlantic City (Malle), 130 Auerbach, Erich, 213, 224 Auerbach, Frank, 66–67 aura, 55–56, 58, 72, 111–12, 158 Auschwitz, 91, 309n77 Austerlitz (Sebald), vii, xii, 287n25, 290n36, 299n30, 337n57 Austria andAustrian identity, 160, 327n4 autobiographical writing: Arabesques (Shammas) as, 265; Canetti on autobiographical “I,” 329n12; Canetti on forgery in, 161; de Man on, 16–17; as enchantment, 68; instability of autobiographic discourse, 18–22, 42–43, 61; mastery of language or “language memoir,” 166–67; Pagis’s Abba as, 268; as privative, 56–57; Shammas’s on, 265; subject “decentered” in, 20, 162, 250, 251...