Contents

Preface: “Sebald’s Vision”

Acknowledgments

1. “Like the snow on the Alps”: After Nature

2. What Does It Mean to Count?: The Emigrants

3. Frames and Excursions: Rings of Saturn

4. Toward an Epistemology of Citation: “Air War and Literature”

5. A is for Austerlitz: Austerlitz

6. Déjà vu or . . . : “Like Day and Night—On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp”

7. A Critical Eye: The Interviews

Notes

Works Cited

Index