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Getting Under Your Skin: Sebald on Chatwin and Flaubert

Getting Under Your Skin: Sebald on Chatwin and Flaubert Patrick ffrench Getting Under Your Skin Sebald on Chatwin and Flaubert The melancholic turn of W.G. Sebald’s prose has been a recurrent feature of critical commentary on his work: an early critical volume names Sebald the “Anatomist of Melancholy” (Görner), as if to suggest that Sebald is pursuing the legacy of Robert Burton; through its title alone e Th Rings of Satur co n nsecrates the melancholic temperament as the dominant mood of the writing; Dora Osborne remarks of The Emigrants that the nomadic tendencies of Sebald’s protagonists are “resisted by the overwhelmingly melancholic force of traumatic history, which ultimatel -y deter mines the course of Sebald’s narratives” (Osborne 106); Greg Bond notes Sebald’s confessed affinity with the seventeentcen h- tury English writer Thomas Browne, who, in e Th Rings of Saturn is accredited by Sebald with the view that “On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation” (23–4, cited in Bond 39); Eric Santner, in the extraordinarily rich st On C udy reaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald, sees in melancholy the driving force of Sebald’s work, and explores the deep ramifications of this insight, extending from the ae ff ctive tonality of melancholy in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Getting Under Your Skin: Sebald on Chatwin and Flaubert

Ffrench, Patrick
The Comparatist , Volume 41 – Nov 1, 2017
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Patrick ffrench Getting Under Your Skin Sebald on Chatwin and Flaubert The melancholic turn of W.G. Sebald’s prose has been a recurrent feature of critical commentary on his work: an early critical volume names Sebald the “Anatomist of Melancholy” (Görner), as if to suggest that Sebald is pursuing the legacy of Robert Burton; through its title alone e Th Rings of Satur co n nsecrates the melancholic temperament as the dominant mood of the writing; Dora Osborne remarks of The Emigrants that the nomadic tendencies of Sebald’s protagonists are “resisted by the overwhelmingly melancholic force of traumatic history, which ultimatel -y deter mines the course of Sebald’s narratives” (Osborne 106); Greg Bond notes Sebald’s confessed affinity with the seventeentcen h- tury English writer Thomas Browne, who, in e Th Rings of Saturn is accredited by Sebald with the view that “On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation” (23–4, cited in Bond 39); Eric Santner, in the extraordinarily rich st On C udy reaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald, sees in melancholy the driving force of Sebald’s work, and explores the deep ramifications of this insight, extending from the ae ff ctive tonality of melancholy in the

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