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Adriaanszoon, Adriaan, 58
After Nature (Sebald): “And if I remained by the outermost Sea,” 17, 180n4; blindness in, xiv, 7–9; borders crossed in, 1–4, 14, 17, 28; “Dark night sallies forth,” 9, 18–19; description in, xiii, 4–7, 12, 19, 201n24, 245n16; dreams in, 18–19, 179n10; interconnection in, xiv; language of, 179n14; “like the snow on the Alps” and, xiii, 1–2, 8–9, 11–12, 14, 16–19, 165, 168, 180n3, 188n34; names in, xiii, 9–14, 16, 179n14; peering sharply ahead in, 14–20; photographs and, 182n12, 182n13; publishing history, xiii–xiv, 245n15; repetition in, xiv, 19; title, ix, xiii, 1–2
Air raids, see Halberstadt air raids; Hamburg air raids
“The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945” (Kluge), 83, 93, 99–100, 209n9
“Air War and Literature” (Sebald), xviii, 50, 167; aesthetics and, 82–83; citation and, xix, 75–101; description, 85, 91, 94–95, 98, 213n31, 214n36, 245n16; documentary view and, 75, 82, 214n36; epistemology, xix, 77, 92, 94, 97, 98, 100–101; irony in, 92, 93, 94, 98, 101; judgment and, 76, 81–82, 83, 173; natural history, 97–98, 212n24, 216n46, 217n50; synoptic view, 79, 85, 88, 89, 211–12n21, 212n25; theological mythology and, 80–81, 82, 89, 209n9, 213n30
Alphabet: in Austerlitz, xvii–xviii, 102–3, 120, 128, 144, 145, 203n37, 218n1, 219n3, 226n48; trees and, 219n3
Altdorfer, Albrecht, 18–19
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp, xvi, 46–52, 58, 199nn16–17; Browne and, 46, 50, 52; judgment of, 46, 50, 173
Anderson, Mark, 207n60
“And if I remained by the outermost Sea,” see After Nature
Angel of history: Benjamin and, xix, 91–92, 97, 99, 101, 210n12; Kluge and, 93–94, 96–98; time and, 99, 218n52
Annihilation, 68, 78, 115, 195n45, 196n51
Archival documentation, xvii, 104–5, 115, 125, 145, 188–89n1, 195n45, 221n11, 221n12
Arnolfini, Giovanni, 156, 157, 158–59, 240n18
Art, x, 182n13, 201n24; After Nature and blindness of, 7–9; Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp, xvi, 46, 47, 51, 58; The Battle of Alexander, 19; borders crossed through, 2–3, 150–55, 170–72, 236n1; death and, 13–14; history and, 180n3, 243n4; nature and, 57, 177n2; representation and, 152–53, 170, 180n3; see also Jan Peter Tripp; Matthaeus Grünewald; specific artworks
“As Day and Night, Chalk and Cheese: On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp” (Sebald), 226n44, 239n6
Atrocities, writers and historical, xi, xviii–xix, 76, 77, 78, 79, 179nn8–9, 209n4
“Auf ungeheuer dünnem Eis” (Sebald), 242n2, 245n10, 245n19; battle names, 226n49; blindness, 228n56; border between fiction and factual narrative, 164–65, 167; branching of subject matter, 130; citation, 218n54, 234n91, 241n22, 242n3; coincidences, 18; historical atrocities, 179nn8–9; interconnections, 197n53; Kafka, 187n32; literature, 189n9; prose text, 167; reality, 168; research, 165–66, 169; uncertainty of meaning, 188n38
Austerlitz (Sebald): alphabet in, xvii–xviii, 102–4, 110–11, 120, 128, 145, 203n37, 218n1, 219n5, 224n28, 226n48, 226n49; Antikos Bazaar, 106; archaeological layering, 137; Breendonk—Lithuania, 143–47; Campo Santo—Stuttgart, 113–15; citation in, 101; coincidences in, 112, 125, 136; crosshatching in, 121–22, 125–26, 128, 146, 147, 178n5, 208n64, 236n2, 245n18, 246n21; description, x, 119, 121, 127–29, 147, 226n48, 230n72, 235n99, 245n11; desert, 126–30; documentation and, 108; dreams in, 107, 113–14, 137; Ghetto Museum, 109; ghostly images in, 110, 193n39, 194n39; Greenwich Time, 130–34; Iver Grove, 141–43; judgment and, 76–77; life and death in, 197n3; London, 121–25; as museum, 113; name, 103–4; Paris—Elysées, 115–21; photographs in, 106–8, 140, 142, 143, 222n20; with place of time, 137–41, 242n1; and political power, 134, 231n76; Prague, 104–6; between Prague and Hoek van Holland, 110–13; as prose book, 167; publishing history, 245n15; roofer in, 227n50; the Schelde, 134–37; speech in, 135; Terezín, 106–10; time in, 111–12, 130–34, 137–41, 192n25, 208n65, 231n76, 232n80, 233n83; title, ix–x; travelers and, 104, 106, 131, 134; Ulysses and, 104, 220n8; webs in, 107, 110, 114, 120, 224n35; windows in, 107, 226n45
Baldanders, 71, 205n51; Fraktur, 62, 63, 64–67; speech and, 65–66, 197n4
Baltzer, Burkhard, 189n9
Barthes, Roland, 83, 153, 244n8
Bates, Michael, 236n2
Battles, names of, 120, 226n49
The Battle of Alexander, 18, 19
Benjamin, Walter, 93, 98, 178n4, 198n7, 212n25, 216n46; angel of history, xix, 91–93, 97, 98, 99, 101, 210n12, 218n52; on fascism and progress, 215n42; Sebald and, 216n46
Bernhard, Thomas, 221n14
Bestäubung (cross-pollination), 28, 33, 38, 192n26, 197n53
“Between History and Natural History: On the Literary Description of Total Destruction” (Sebald), 94, 98, 217n50
Bibliothèque Nationale, 112, 129, 137, 230n72, 233n84, 245n11
Bird’s-eye view, xii, 79, 80, 91, 128–29, 179n11, 188n40, 209n6, 218n57
Birthdays, 9, 11, 20, 184n17, 214n37
Blindness, xi, xiv, xviii, 193n31, 228n56; of art in After Nature, 7–9; deafness and, 71; of nature, 6–7, 16; see also Sight
Body: anatomy lesson, 46–52, 173, 199n16–17; as diagram, 47, 49, 50, 52; dreams and, 52; Fragonard, 116; horses, 116; of Kindt, 46, 47, 49–50, 202n30; mist and fog of, 53; railway system with, 117; Rembrandt with, xvi, 48–49, 202n30; with soul of dead, 43, 69, 70; of weavers, 202n32
Boedecker, Sven, 178n7
Borders: After Nature and crossing, 1–4, 14, 17, 28; art and crossing of, 2–3, 150–55, 170–72, 236n1, 246n23; in The Emigrants, 28; between fiction and factual narrative, 164–65, 167; glass, 246n23; in “Like Day and Night,” 148, 236n1; see also Frames; Windows
Branches, of trees, 108–9, 116
Branching, xviii, 115–16, 129; citations, 112; of subject matter, 130; with webs and hatching, 131, 138, 146
Brecht, Bertolt, 95
Breendonk—Lithuania, 143–47
Browne, Thomas, xvi–xvii, 45, 199n14, 236n2; with anatomy lesson, 46, 50, 52; knowledge and, 58–61; mist and fog, 52–54; quincunx, xvi, 54, 55, 56–58, 59, 60, 204n42, 205n45; Sebald and, 205n45; silk and, 69; see also The Garden of Cyrus; Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall
Büchner, Georg, 234n91
Butterflies, 24, 29–30, 68; Butterfly Man, 25–27, 32, 190n14, 190n19; with dust production, 27–28; net, 25–27, 31
Campo Santo (Sebald), 96, 212n23, 213n31, 215n43; “Between History and Natural History: On the Literary Description of Total Destruction,” 94, 98, 217n50; Chatwin, Bruce (“The Mystery of the Red-Brown Skin”), 118; with hope, 95; narrative distance and, 215n39; natural history and, 97, 101, 169, 216n46; restitution and, 113–15; retribution and, 209nn8–9
Campo Santo—Stuttgart, 113–15
Caravans, xv, 33–34, 195n41, 246n23
Celan, Paul, 71, 72, 73, 178n4, 207n60, 208n62, 208n64
Chaos: of dreams, 62; patterns of, 130, 170
Children: Kindertransport, xvii, 104, 106, 115, 126, 127, 137, 145, 219n3, 220n8, 228n60; memories, 122–25, 131
Citation, xi, 62, 167; “Air War and Literature” and, 75–101; “Auf ungeheuer dünnem Eis,” 218n54, 234n91, 241n22, 242n3; branching, 112; function, xix, 166; Nossack’s, 88; practice of, 88–101; remembrance as, 21, 149; Sebald and, 167, 218n54; in Vertigo, 218n54
The City Beyond the River (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom) (Kasack), 89
Coincidences: in After Nature, 17–20, 187n33; in Austerlitz, 125; of dates, 235n93; without meaning, 18, 122–23, 191n22; Sebald on, 19–20, 187n33, 214n37; staged, 4, 9
Collapse, interconnections and, 117, 119
The Complete Memory of the World (film), 233n84
Concrete: concrete documentary, xii, 82, 85, 86, 87, 210n14, 211n21; concrete memory, 75, 84, 87, 88; etymological sense, 211n20; with Hamburg air raids, 211n21
Connections, of distance, 4, 17
“Conversation in the Mountains” (Celan), 72, 73
Courbet, Gustave, 193n29
Criticism, see Literary criticism
Critique, 164, 165, 201n26; observation and, 172
Crosshatching, see Hatching
Cuomo, Joseph, 184nn17–18, 187n33, 244n5
Dakyns, Janine, 44, 45, 198–99n11, 201n28
Dante, Alighieri, 1, 15, 181n8, 186n27
“Dark night sallies forth,” see After Nature
Dates, 46, 68, 130–31, 173, 184n17, 197n53, 235n93, 235n95; coincidences, 214n37, 235n93; identity of, 145; names and, 144, 145, 214n37
Dean, Tacita, 243n4
Death, 31, 67, 198n11, 216n46; art and, 13–14; birthdays and, 214n37; body with soul of dead, 43, 69, 70; in The Emigrants, 193n40, 194n40; with forbidden frames, 69–71; Funeral at Lausanne, 131; interlude of, 43–45; life and, 39, 154–56, 163, 171–72, 178n4, 197n3, 216n46; mourning veils, 69, 70, 73; in Rings of Saturn, 39, 43–45, 69–71; of Sebald, 236n2; sepulchral urns, 67–68; silk and, 70, 73–74; time and, 70
La déclaration de guerre: in Déjà vu oder der Zwischenfall, xx, 152, 155–56, 160, 162, 170; shoes and, xx, 150–55, 159, 162, 171, 240n16, 240n18
Decomposition, 116, 117, 177n2, 209n9
Déjà vu oder der Zwischenfall (Déjà vu or the Incident), xx, 152, 155–56, 160, 162, 170
De Moor, Piet, 187n32
Descartes, René, 48; Cartesian space and, xvi, 41, 59, 71, 138, 202n30; influence, 48, 50, 53, 199n16
Description, 88, 132, 143, 156, 203n36, 245n16; After Nature, 5–6, 12, 19, 182n13, 188n39, 201n24, 245n16; “Air War and Literature” and, 85, 91, 94–95, 98, 213n31, 214n36; Austerlitz and, x, 119, 121, 127–29, 147, 226n48, 230n72, 235n99, 245n11; The Emigrants, 21, 79; Hamburg air raids, 210n12, 211n18, 211n21; Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, 195n44; “Like Day and Night: On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp” and, 170–71, 174; of literature, 165, 169; quincunx, 204n42; The Rings of Saturn and, 44, 51, 65; textual, 6, 52; Vertigo and, 245n16; Veterinary Museum of Maisons-Alfort, 174; see also “Between History and Natural History: On the Literary Description of Total Destruction”
Desert: in Austerlitz, 126–30; caravans, 195n41; Jews in, 127, 129
Diagrams: body as, 47, 49, 50, 52; quincunx, xvi, 54, 55, 56–58, 59, 204n42, 205n45
Displacement, of time, 86, 242n1
Distance, 92; connections of, 4, 17; knowledge from, 179n9; narrative distance, 215n39
Distraction, xvi, 203n33; The Garden of Cyrus and, 56, 61; The Rings of Saturn and, 51–52, 60
Divine justice, 81–82, 209nn8–9
Documentary, 75, 192n27; approach, xix, 82, 173; concrete documentary, xii, xix, 82, 84, 85, 86, 210n14, 211n21; fiction and, 167, 244n9; pseudodocumentary, 83, 173; view and “Air War and Literature,” xviii, 214n36
Documentation, xv, 31, 78, 86, 108, 195n45
Documents, x, 23, 78, 166; see also Diagrams; Photographs
Dogs: eyes, xx–xxi, 154, 158, 159, 172, 178n5, 234n90; in paintings and life, 154–56, 163, 171–72; research and, 165–66, 169; see also Déjà vu oder der Zwischenfall
Dreams: in After Nature, 18–19, 179n10; in Austerlitz, 107, 113–14, 137; body and, 52; chaos of, 62; The Emigrants and, 32–33, 192n26; “Es träumte mir,” 194n37; Freud on, 193n37, 194n37; space, 114
“Dr Henry Selwyn,” see The Emigrants
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (film), 33–34
Dust, 34, 243n4; The Emigrants and, 192n26, 196n46; The Rings of Saturn and, 39, 197n5, 201n28; Vertigo and, 190n13; see also Cross-pollination
The Emergence of Memory (Sebald), 242n2
The Emigrants (Sebald), xii, xv, 190n16; borders crossed in, 28; butterflies in, 24–32, 68, 190n14, 190n19; cross-pollination (Bestäubung), xv, 28, 33, 38, 192n26, 197n53; the dead, 22–24, 31, 38, 189n9, 194n40; death in, 193n40, 194n40; description, 79; documents in, xv, 23; dreams and, 32–33, 192n26; “Dr Henry Selwyn,” 22, 28–32, 188n40, 189n3, 193n34; dust, 28, 192n26, 196n46; “Es träumte mir” and, 194n37; ghost quarter and, 22–24; glacier, 29, 30; Jews, 21–22, 38, 189n3, 189n4; judgment in, xv, 75–77, 173; life and death in, 197n3; “Max Aurach,” 23, 28, 34–35, 79, 191n22; Max’s image in, 25–27; memory in, 22–23, 25–26, 28; names in, 193n34; newspapers, 30, 34–35; “Paul Bereyter,” 23–24, 188n1, 189n4, 190n11; photography in, xv, 21, 23–24, 30–32, 173, 188n1; portrait, 25–26, 28; publishing history, xiv, 21, 75; repetition in, xiv–xv, 30; Sebald on, 244n9; silver poisoning, 34, 35; slide shows in, 31–38; time in, 192n25; travelers and, 26
Enlightenment, 46, 50–51, 52, 54, 201n26
Epistemology, xix, 43, 58, 60, 215n43, 216n46, 218n56
“Epistle Dedicatory,” see The Rings of Saturn
Ethics, x, xxi, 8–9, 46, 48, 145, 147, 205n45; see also Judgment; Moral capacity; Moral imperative; Moral position
Excursions, 71–74, 219n3, 226n48
Explanation, 168
Expulsion, 58–62
Extraterritoriality, 203n41
Eyes, 178n5, 181n9, 190n11, 241n23, 245n20, 246nn20–21; bird’s-eye view, xii, 79, 128–29, 179n11, 188n40, 218n57; dogs, xx–xxi, 154, 158, 159, 172, 178n5, 234n90; with green-colored name, 12–13, 185n23, 245n12; with green landscape, 186n26; quincunx and, 205n45; retina, 123, 124, 228nn57–58; Tripp and, 236n2; in Unrecounted, 181n9, 236n2; see also Sight
Factual narrative: border between fiction and, 164–65, 167; language and, ix
Fascism, 93, 209n8, 213n31, 215n42
Fiction: border between factual narrative and, 164–65, 167; documentary and, 167, 244n9; writing, 76–77, 165, 167, 178n7
Finch, Jeremiah S., 204n42
FitzGerald, Edward, 199nn12–13
Flaubert, Gustave, 201n28
Fog, mist and, 52–54
Forschung, see Research
For Years Now (Sebald and Jaray), 236–38n2
Foucault, Michel, 178n4, 216n46
Fragonard, Honoré, 116, 117–18, 174
Frames, 239n12, 246n25; After Nature, 242n1; death and forbidden, 69–71; The Emigrants, xv, 32; “Like Day and Night,” 151, 182n10; marginalia, ix, 148–49, 239n5; The Rings of Saturn and, xvi, 41, 43, 58, 69–71, 202n32; shattering of, x, xv–xvii, 170–72, 246n25; silk and, 70; slide shows, 32
Franklin, Ruth, 204n42
Freud, Sigmund, 178n4; on dreams, 193n37, 194n37; influence, 216n46
Fries, Thomas, 239n5
Funeral at Lausanne, 131
The Garden of Cyrus (Browne), xvi–xvii, 57, 203n34; distraction and, 56, 61; expulsion from, 58–62; language of, 58–60
Genewein, Walter, 195n45
Georg, 180n4
Germany: Nazis, xviii, 35, 36, 103, 128, 196n49, 230n71; rebuilding of, 78; see also Halberstadt air raids; Hamburg air raids
Ghetto Museum, 106, 109–10, 122, 145, 224n32
Ghettos, 35, 36, 37, 38, 195n45, 196n49
Ghosts: Austerlitz and ghostly images, 110, 193n39, 194n39; ghost quarter and The Emigrants, 22–24
Glass, 117–18, 124, 225n38, 226n44, 246n23; borders, 246n23; drinking, 67–68; glass cases, 116, 117–18, 140–41; patterns, 111; slides with shattered, 32, 205n43, 246n23; windows, 41, 107–8, 111, 118–19, 150, 170, 174, 207n59, 226n45
God, 81–82, 127, 209nn8–9, 213n30
Gray, Richard T., 200n22, 201n26, 203n38
Green, 185n22, 188n34; eye with landscape of, 186n26; green-colored name, 12–13, 185n23, 245n12; trees with loss of, 185n22
Greenwich Time, 130–34
Greying, 188n35, 191n21, 196n46
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoph von, 43, 45, 54, 62, 67, 205n46; Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus, 62–67
Grünewald, Matthaeus, xiii, 1–2, 3, 5, 187n33; art of, 182n13, 201n24; with blindness of art, 7–9; names and, 10–14
Halberstadt air raids, 83, 93, 99–100, 209n9
Hamburg air raids (1943): descriptions of, 210n12, 211n18, 211n21; influence of, 81–82, 213n34; synoptic view of, 211n21
Hamburger, Michael, 179n14, 180n2, 235n93, 236–38n2, 239n6, 243n4
Harris, Arthur, 81
Hart, Matthew, 203n41
Hatching: with branching and webs, 131, 138, 146; crosshatching in Austerlitz, 121–23, 125–26, 128, 146, 147, 178n5, 208n64, 236n2, 245n18, 246n21; with images, 128, 130; veiling with, 121, 123, 142
Hauser, Kaspar, 33–34, 194n37, 195n41; see also Kaspar Hauser
Heckscher, William S., 199n16
Hell, Julia, 208n1, 210n12, 210n14, 212n25, 218n52
Heshel’s Kingdom (Jacobson), 101, 143–45
Hesse, Hermann, 213n31
Hirsch, Marianne, 244n8
History, 169–70; angel of history, xix, 91–94, 96–99, 101, 210n12, 218n52; art and, 180n3; language and, 135; natural, 94, 97, 98, 101, 168–69, 173–74, 216n46, 217n50; Nossack, Hans Erich, and, 86; publishing, xiii–xiv, 21, 75, 245n15; writers and historical atrocities, xi, xviii–xix, 76, 77, 179nn8–9, 209n4
Hoek van Holland, 110–13
Holocaust, x, xi, 4, 76, 77, 222n20; see also Austerlitz; The Emigrants
Hope, 95
Horses, bodies of, 116
Hospital windows, see Windows
Hugo, Victor, 112
Hutchinson, Ben, 206n54
Huyssen, Andreas, 215n43, 218n56
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall (Browne), 67–68
Identity, of dates, 145
IG Farben Berlin, 195n45
Images, 25–27, 236n2; Austerlitz and ghostly, 110, 193n39, 194n39; hatching with, 128, 130; painting of, 187n30; puzzle-image, 152, 161; repetition of, 69; text and, 204n42, 236n2; trees with twinned, 193n29; veil-thread, 72–73
Imitation, ix, 105, 163, 177n2, 214n36
Impairment, of sight, 123–24, 147
Indestructible, soul as, 67–68
Inner sight, 8
Interconnections, 17–20, 115, 129, 188n38, 188n40, 192–93n28, 192n27, 197n53, 222n20, 223n27; collapse and, 117, 119; meaning of, 20; net of, xiv, 19, 223n27
Interlude, of death, 43–45
Interpretation, 168
Involuntary thought, 43–44, 68
Isenschmid, Andreas, 197n53, 242n3
Iver Grove, 141–43
Jacobus, Mary, 243n4
Jaray, Tess, 236n2
Jewish quarter (Judenviertel), 22–23, 196n52
the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt (Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main), 195n44
Jews, 72, 189n8, 195n44; in desert, 127, 129; Genewein and, 195n45; Holocaust, x, xi, 76, 77; Kindertransport, xvii, 104, 106, 115, 126, 127, 137, 145, 219n3, 220n8, 228n60; Mischlinge or mixed breed, 196n47; Nazis, xviii, 35, 36, 103, 128, 196n49, 230n71; persecution of, 10–11, 106, 138; see also The Emigrants
Jeziorkowski, Klaus, 224n35
Judgment, 90, 139, 173, 175, 244n7; “Air War and Literature” and, 76, 83, 173; of anatomy lesson, 46, 50, 173; Austerlitz and, 76–77; in The Emigrants, 75–77, 173; in “Like Day and Night,” xxi, 159, 172
Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main (the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt), 195n44
Jünger, Ernst, 213n31
Justice, see Divine justice
Kafka, Franz, 178n4, 181n8, 187n32, 198n9, 198n10, 228n57; criticism of, 243n4; influence, 218n54, 242n3
Kasack, Hermann, 80, 89, 209n9, 213n31
Kaspar Hauser (film), 21, 33, 192n28, 193n38, 194n38
Khayyām, Omar, 199n12
Kilbourn, Russell J. A., 245n14
Kindertransport, see Children; Jews; Railway system
Kindt, Aris, 46, 47, 49–50, 202n30
Kluge, Alexander, xix, 77, 91–92, 101, 216n47, 218n56, 245n10; angel of history and, 93–94, 96–98; with Halberstadt air raids, 83, 93, 98–100, 209n9; influence, 167, 245n10
Knowledge, xiii, xvii, 62, 236n2; challenges to conventional, 58–59; from distance, 179n9; in Grimmelshausen, 63–66; scientific, 46–49; sight without knowing, 14–15; statistics, 77–78
Köhler, Andrea, 211n19, 214n37, 235n93, 236n2; Georg and, 180n4; Sebald and, 81, 168–69, 214n37; on vision, 178n3
Krauss, Nicole, 189n3
Language, 188n39, 230n74; of After Nature, 179n14; Baldanders and, 66; Barthes on, 83; factual narrative and, ix, 76, 77; of The Garden of Cyrus, 58–60; of immediacy, 76; indirect, 77; memory and, 83–84; and moral imperative, 76; representation and, x, 18, 45, 78; Sebald and, 214n36; sense perception and, 77, 78, 83; trauma and, 83–84; see also Alphabet; Speech
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 197n1, 203n40
Life, 178n4, 197n3, 216n46; dogs in paintings and, 154–56, 163, 171–72; representation and, 39; see also Death
“Like Day and Night: On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp” (Sebald), xix–xxi, 159, 170–73, 238n3, 246n22; art history, 158, 170, 172; citation, 149, 150, 153; description, 150, 170–71, 174; frame, 151, 154, 158, 163, 171; knowledge, 149, 159, 161, 163, 172; morganatic marriage, 156, 158; narrated time, 151, 153, 154, 155, 171–72; patterns of chaos in, 170; photography in, 153, 161; realism, 161, 162, 163; with remembrance as citation, 21, 149; representation, 152, 153; see also Paintings
“Like the snow on the Alps,” see After Nature
Linear time, 221n11, 225n37, 230n74
Literary criticism, 170, 210n12, 245n13, 245n16; literature from, 169, 172–73; Sebald and, 164–65, 169, 187n32, 242n3, 243n4, 245n16
Literature: description of, 165, 169; literary criticism to, 169, 172–73; Sebald on, 50, 189n9; see also “Air War and Literature”
Litz as heddle, 195n43
Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 35, 195n45; chief accountant, 36; weavers, 37, 38
Logis in einem Landhaus (Sebald), ix, 148–49, 238n3
London, 121–25
Long, J. J., 178n4, 203n34, 206n55, 221n11, 230n70
Loss: alphabet with, xvii; memory, xv, 119; of trees with green, 185n22
Lown-Hecht, Tania, 203n41
Ludwig II (King of Bavaria), 181n8
Magritte, René, 207n59
Martin, James, 186n27
Maus (Spiegelman), 244n8
“Max Aurach,” see The Emigrants
Meaning: coincidences without, 18, 122–23, 191n22; interconnections, 20; uncertainty of, xiv, 68–69, 188n38, 199n16
Melancholy outrage, ethics of, x
Memory, 218n55, 233n84, 242n2; childhood, 122–25, 131; concrete, 75, 84, 87; as dumbness, 188n40; in The Emigrants, 22–23, 25–26, 28; loss, xv, 119; names and, 219n5, 220n7, 221n12; normal, 84; postmemory, 244n8; with rebuilding of Germany, 78; with remembrance as citation, 21, 149; in The Rings of Saturn, 198n7; veil, 52–53; with window on past, 39–43, 208n61
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 159
Misrepresentation, see Representation
Mist, fog and, 52–54
Mixed breed (Mischlinge), 189n3, 189n4, 196n47
Moral imperative, 76, 82, 86, 94
Moral position, x, 76, 90, 236n2
Mücke, Dorothea von, 177n2, 180n3, 180n4
Museums, 113, 224n32; see also Ghetto Museum; Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main; Veterinary Museum of Maisons-Alfort
Nabokov, Vladimir, 32, 192n28, 193n33
Nach der Natur: paint from nature, 2, 8, 177n2; in the wake of nature, ix, 177n2
Naegeli, Johannes, 31
Names, 31, 179n12, 184n18, 196n49, 224n28; After Nature and, 9–14, 16, 179n14, 180n4, 185n23, 187n33, 245n12; Austerlitz, 219n5, 220n7, 221n12; of battles, 120, 226n49; dates and, 144, 145, 214n37; in The Emigrants, 179n12, 189n5, 192n27, 193n34, 196n48, 196n49; green-colored name, 12–13, 185n23, 245n12; Grünewald and, 10–14, 168; Kaspar Hauser and, 194n38; memory and, 219n5, 220n7, 221n12; repetition with, 196n48; Rings of Saturn, 198n9; Sebald with, 184n18, 187n33, 189n5, 192n27; spelling of names, 104
Narratives: factual, ix, 164–65, 167; indirect, 179n8, 221n14; multiplicity of narrative modes, 86, 213n29; narrative distance, 179n9, 212n23, 215n39
Natural history, 168, 169, 173–74; “Between History and Natural History: On the Literary Description of Total Destruction,” 94, 98, 217n50; Campo Santo and, 97, 101, 169, 216n46
Nature: art and, 57, 177n2; blindness of, 6–7, 16; Nach der Natur or paint from nature, 2, 8, 177n2; see also After Nature
Nazis, xviii, 35, 36, 103, 128, 196n49, 230n71
Net, 203n34, 228nn57–58; butterfly, 25–27, 31; hospital window with, 41, 42, 55–56, 68, 70–73, 207n59; of interconnection, xiv, 19, 223n27; patterns, 150
Networks, 129, 222n18, 223n27, 224n35, 230n72; aesthetic, 223n17; of paths, 91, 92, 97, 100; of The Rings of Saturn, 73; of space, 112; of time, 112, 131; webs, 123
Normal memory, 84
Normal speech, 84
North, Paul, 203n33
Nossack, Hans Erich, 82, 86, 97; citations of, 88; concrete memory and, 87; divine justice and, 209nn8–9; Sebald and, 86, 212n24, 212n27, 218n56; with time displaced, 86
Novels, 167
The Novel After Theory (Ryan), 243n4
Numbers, 57, 59, 61; birthdays, 9, 11, 20, 184n17, 214n37; of windows, 229n64
The Oak of Vercingetorix (Courbet), 193n29
Obliqueness, of Holocaust, 77
Observation: critique and, 172; scientific, 59, 62
Odysseus, see Ulysses
Öhlschläger, Claudia, 177n2, 204n42
On Creaturely Life: Rilke/Benjamin/Sebald (Santner), 178n4, 216n46
Paint from nature (Nach der Natur), 2, 8, 177n2
Paintings: Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp, xvi, 46–52, 58, 199n17; The Battle of Alexander, 18, 19; La déclaration de guerre, xx, 150–56, 159, 160, 162, 170–71, 240n16, 240n18; Déjà vu oder der Zwischenfall, xx, 152, 155–56, 160, 162, 170; Funeral at Lausanne, 131; of images, 187n30; in “Like Day and Night: On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp,” 170–72; within paintings, 152, 160; Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, 155, 157; View of Antwerp with the Schelde Frozen, 135–36
Paris—Elysées, 115–21
Parkinson, Michael, 44, 198n11
Past, window on, 39–43, 208n61; see also Memory
“Pastoral, After History” (Jacobus), 243n4
Paths, networks of, 91, 92, 97, 100
Patterns, 106; of chaos, 130, 170; in glass, 111; net, 150; pattern catalogues with silk, 207n58; webs, 107
“Paul Bereyter,” see The Emigrants
“Penetrating the Dark” (Köhler), 236n2
Photographs, xv, 166, 169, 241n21, 244n6, 245n19; in After Nature, 182n12; in Austerlitz, 140, 142, 143, 222n20; billiard balls or celestial eclipse, 142, 143; counterfeits and, 166; in The Emigrants, 23–24, 173, 188n1; of Genewein, 195n45; glacier, 29, 30; hospital window, 41, 42, 55–56, 68, 70–73, 207n59; Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 35, 36, 37, 38, 195n45; newspapers, 30; Sebald on, 245n19; Terezín, 222n20; time piece in three parts, 140, 141; as truth, 166; writing and, 207n59
Picture puzzles, 71, 73, 151, 207n59
Pollination, see Cross-pollination
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, 157
Postmemory, 244n8
Présence de la mort (Ramuz), 198n11
Presner, Todd Samuel, 85, 86, 89, 210n13, 211n21, 212n25, 221n16, 230n73, 232n81
The Problem of Distraction (North), 203n33
Progress, fascism and, 215n42
Prose book, 167
Proust, Marcel, 43, 198n7, 229n65
Publishing histories, xiii–xiv, 21, 75, 245n15
Puzzles: picture, 71, 73, 151, 207n59; puzzle-image, 152, 161
Quartering, 22–24
Quincunx, xvi, 54, 55, 56–58, 59–62, 203n34; description, 204n42; eyes and, 205n45
Race, laws and, 196n47
Railway system, 110, 129, 142, 222n18, 226n49; with bodies, 117; Kindertransport, xvii, 104, 106, 115, 126, 127, 137, 145, 219n3, 220n8, 228n60; time and, 106, 111
Ramuz, Charles Ferdinand, 198n11
Ranke, Leopold von, 212n25
Realism, 161, 168, 178–79n7, 208n1, 230n72, 236n2
Rebuilding, of Germany, 78
Rembrandt: anatomy lesson of, 46–52, 173, 199nn16–17; with body, xvi, 48–49, 202n30
Remembrance, as citation, 21, 149
Repetition: After Nature and, 19; in The Emigrants, xiv–xv, 30; of images, 69; of names, 196n48; paintings, 152; verbal, 105
Representation, 73–74, 114, 146, 151, 236n2, 246n16; art and, 46–52, 150–63, 170, 180n3; language and, x, 18, 45, 78; life and, 39; misrepresentation, xvi, 49–52; modes, xv, 46, 48; The Rings of Saturn and, 58, 70, 201n26; self-representation, 70, 108, 116; see also Documentary
Research (Forschung), 21, 112, 165–66, 169, 229n67, 230n72
Resnais, Alain, 233n84
Restitution, 113–15, 145, 229n67
Retina, 123, 124, 228nn57–58
Retribution, with God and war, 81–82, 209nn8–9, 213n30
Rhombus, 57, 59, 61, 150, 203n36, 204n42
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 178n4, 216n46, 243n4
The Rings of Saturn (Sebald), xi, 197n4, 198n6, 245n17; Baldanders’ Fraktur, 62, 63, 64–67; Browne’s quincunx, xvi, 54, 55, 56–58, 59, 204n42, 205n45; citation, 101; the dead, 13, 199; description and, 44, 51, 65, 245n16; distraction and, 51–52, 60; dust and, 39, 197n5, 201n28; “Epistle Dedicatory,” 58; excursions, 71–74; expelled from The Garden of Cyrus, 58–62; frames and, xvi, 69–71; Hamburger and, 236n2; hospital window, 41, 42, 55–56, 68, 70–73, 207n59; interlude of death, 43–45; memory in, 198n7; mist and fog, 52–54; networks of, 73; Rembrandt’s anatomy lesson, 46–52, 173, 199nn16–17; representation and, 58, 70, 201n26; silk and, 45, 67–70, 202n31, 206n56, 207n58; title, 197n2, 197n5; travelers and, 44, 70, 74; veils in, 70–71; weavers in, 202n32; webs in, 39, 61–62; window on past, 39–43, 208n61
Romans, 204n42
Ronda, Jean-Pierre, 179n8
Roofer, 227n50
Royal Greenwich Observatory, 131–32, 134, 140, 224n28, 224n32
Ryan, Judith, 243n4
the Schelde, 134–37
Schmidt, Arno, 78
Scholem, Gershom, 178n4
Scholz, Christian, 245n19
Schreber, Daniel Paul, 114
Science, 165; of dreams, 194n37; knowledge, 46–49; observation, 59, 62; quincunx and, 58–60; veterinary, 118–19; see also Anatomy lesson
Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 178nn3–4, 190n19, 197n53, 206n55; Benjamin and, 216n46; birthdays, 9, 20, 184n17, 214n37; Browne and, 205n45; citation and, xi, 167, 218n54; coincidences and, xiv, 19–20, 187n33, 214n37; death of, 236n2; documentation and, xii; on The Emigrants, 244n9; epistemology, x; ethics, x; extraterritoriality of, 203n41; fiction writing and, 76–77, 165, 178n7; influences, 167, 218n54, 221n14, 243n4, 245n10; interconnection, xiv; Köhler and, 81, 168–69, 214n37; language and, 214n36; literary criticism and, 164–65, 169, 187n32, 242n3, 243n4, 245n16; on literature, 50, 189n9; names and, x, xiii, 184n18, 187n33, 189n5, 192n27; narrative style, x; Nossack and, 86, 212n24, 212n27, 218n56; obliqueness of Holocaust and, 77; photography, x, xiii, 245n19; St. George and, 3, 180n4; titles in, ix–x, xiii; Tripp and, 114; on Vertigo, 187n32; violence, xii; vision in, xi–xii; war and, 81; on writing, 175; see also After Nature; “Air War and Literature”; “As Day and Night, Chalk and Cheese: On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp”; “Auf ungeheuer dünnem Eis”; Austerlitz; “Between History and Natural History: On the Literary Description of Total Destruction”; Campo Santo; The Emergence of Memory; The Emigrants; For Years Now; “Like Day and Night: On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp”; Logis in einem Landhaus; The Rings of Saturn; Unrecounted; “Verlorenes Land”; Vertigo
Self-representation, 70, 108, 116
Shattering: of frames, x, xv–xvii, 170–72, 246n25; of glass slides, 32, 205n43, 246n23
Sight: bird’s-eye view, xii, 79, 128–29, 179n11, 188n40, 218n57; blindness and, xi, xiv, xviii, 6–9, 16, 71, 193n31, 228n56; eyes, xx–xxi, 12–13, 79, 123, 124, 128–29, 154, 158, 159, 172, 178n5, 179n11, 181n9, 186n26, 188n40, 190n11, 205n45, 218n57, 228nn57–58, 234n90, 236n2, 241n3, 245n20; impairment of, xviii, 123–24, 147; inner sight, 8; without knowing, 14–15; with peering sharply ahead, 14–20; veil and, 6, 72–73, 122–23, 125; vision, xi–xii, xix, 8, 178n3
Silk, 73–74, 143, 206n55; pattern catalogues, 207n58; The Rings of Saturn and, 45, 67–70, 202n31, 206n56, 207n58; veil, 69
Silverblatt, Michael, 179n8, 179n12
Slides, glass, 32, 205n43, 246n23
Slide shows: in The Emigrants, 31–38; frames, 32; of Genewein, 195n45; Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 35, 36, 37, 38, 195n45
“Snow on the alps,” see After Nature
Soul: body with soul of dead, 43, 69, 70; as indestructible, 67–68
Space, 24, 120, 142, 203n40, 242n1; Cartesian, 41, 59, 71, 138; dream, 114; interchangeability of, 2–3; between life and representation, 39; networks of, 112; time and, xviii, 70, 111–12, 131, 136, 138–39, 151, 155, 162–63, 172, 208n65, 232n80; veil in, 73
Speech: in Austerlitz, 135; Baldanders and, 65–66, 197n4; normal, 84
Spelling, of names, 104
Stachel, Thomas, 189n6
Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (The City Beyond the River) (Kasack), 89
Statistics, 77–78
Steinmann, Holger, 204n42
Steller, Georg Wilhelm, 17–18, 184n18, 187n33
Stendhal, 187n32, 242n3, 245n16
Subject matter, branching of, 130
Sussman, Henry, 177n1
Synoptic view, xix, 85, 88, 89, 211n21
Szondi, Peter, 101
Terezín, 106–10
Text: image and, 204n42; prose text, 165, 167; textual description, 6, 52
Theisen, Bianca, 63
Thought, involuntary, 43–44, 68
Time: as accident, 136; angel of history and, 99, 218n52; in Austerlitz, 137–41, 192n25, 208n65, 231n76, 232n80, 233n83; of culture, 149, 151; death and, 70; displacement of, 86, 242n1; in The Emigrants, 192n25; ending time within, 216n46; Greenwich Time, 130–34; instruments of, 140–41; linear, 221n11, 225n37, 230n74; networks of, 112, 131; Newtonian, 138, 139, 146; place of time, 137–41; and political power, 231n76; railway system and, 106, 111; river and, 132–37; space and, xviii, 70, 111–12, 131, 136, 138–39, 151, 155, 162–63, 172, 208n65, 232n80; time piece in three parts, 140, 141
Titles, 209n5, 219n4; After Nature, ix, xiii, 1–2, 177n2; Austerlitz, ix–x; The Rings of Saturn, 197n2, 197n5; Vertigo, ix
Trains, see Railway system
Translation, 236n2; “Air War and Literature” and, 87–88, 90; Austerlitz and, 104, 106, 131, 134; The Emigrants and, 26; The Rings of Saturn and, 44, 70, 74
Trees: alphabet and, 219n3; branches, 108–9, 116; with loss of green, 185n22; twinned images of, 193n29
Tripp, Jan Peter, xi, xx–xxi, 148–63, 182n10, 201n25, 205n43, 226n44; eyes and, 148, 236n2; Sebald and, 114; Unrecounted, xix, 148, 181n9, 236n2; see also La déclaration de guerre; Déjà vu oder der Zwischenfall; “Like Day and Night: On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp”
Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss), 197n1, 203n40
Truth: in Baldanders’ inscription, 63–66; paintings as, 48–50; photographs as, 166
Turner, Joseph Mallord, 112, 131
Twinned images: of glaciers, 29–31; of trees, 193n29
Ulysses (Odysseus), 104, 220n8
Uncertainty, of meaning, xiv, 68–69, 188n38, 199n16
Understanding W. G. Sebald (McCulloh), 206n55
Unrecounted (Sebald and Tripp), xix, 148, 181n9, 236n2
Urns, sepulchral, 67–68
Van Eyck, Jan, 155–56, 157, 158, 162, 241n22
Van Valckenborch, Lucas, 135, 227n53
Veil, 33, 83; with hatching, 121, 123, 142; memory, 52–53; in The Rings of Saturn, 70–71; sight and, 6, 72–73, 122–23, 125; silk, 69; in space, 73; veil-thread image, 72–73
Verbal repetition, 105
“Verlorenes Land” (Sebald), 102, 219n5
Vertigo (Sebald), 181n8, 192n24, 242n3; citations in, 101, 218n54; cross-pollination, 197n53; description, 245n16; dust and, 190n13; Sebald on, 187n32; title’s function, ix
Veterinary Museum of Maisons-Alfort, 116–19, 174, 224n32
Veterinary science, 118–19
Vision, 178n3; connotations, xi–xii; inner sight, 8; “synoptic artificial view,” xix; see also Blindness; Eyes; Sight
Visionary: connotations, 179n10; Sebald as, xi–xii
Wachtel, Eleanor, 188n38, 244n9
Walkowitz, Rebecca, 214n36, 244n7
War, 120, 226n49; with God and retribution, 81–82, 209nn8–9, 213n30; technological warfare, 95, 98; see also “Air War and Literature”; La déclaration de guerre
Webs, 35, 123, 206n55; in Austerlitz, 107, 110, 114, 120, 224n35; with branching and hatching, 131, 138, 146; in The Rings of Saturn, 39, 61–62; veil-thread images in “Conversation in the Mountains,” 72–73
the Web, 228n57
“What a Synoptic and Artificial View Reveals” (Presner), 211n21
Windows: in Austerlitz, 226n45, 229n64; glass, 41, 107–8, 111, 119, 150, 170, 174, 207n59, 226n45; hospital, 41, 42, 55–56, 68, 70–73, 207n59; number of, 229n64; on past, 39–43, 208n61
Wood, James, 76
Writers: concrete memory and, 87; historical atrocities and failure of, xi, xviii–xix, 76, 77, 179nn8–9, 209n4
Writing, 191n22, 194n38, 207n58; fiction, 76–77, 165, 167, 178n7; photographs and, 207n59; Sebald on, 175; style as innovative, x
Zischler, Hanns, 243