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Impersonal Style and the Form of Experience in W. G. Sebald’s
The Rings of Saturn - Studies in the Novel
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 2, Summer 2016
- pp. 205-222
- 10.1353/sdn.2016.0024
- Article
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This article argues that W. G. Sebald’s prose fiction reverses the traditional positioning of the witness as a point of singularity, theorizing instead a relationship to the act of witnessing that, while anchored in personal experience, is imbued at its core with impersonal form. Using