Short stories in disguise: W.G. Sebald's "The emigrants"

• Autores: Amy Snider
• Localización: The Short Story in English [Recurso electrónico]: crossing boundaries / coord. por Gema Soledad Castillo García, María Rosa Cabellos Castilla, Juan Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, Vincent Carlisle Espínola, 2006, ISBN 8481387096, págs. 868-877
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • W. G. Sebald’s stylistic and epistemological interest in fragments, in addition to his devotion to the private and that which is escapes dominant social narratives, corresponds closely with the short story’s structural techniques and philosophical aims as a genre. Considering some of his writing from the perspective of the short story and short story theory opens up Sebald’s writing to new interpretations that scholars have overlooked. Equally important, Sebald’s writing expands our understanding of the limits of short fiction. By considering the section of The Emigrants titled “Dr Selwyn” as a short story, this paper explores one of the fundamental tensions that both Sebald and short story theorists reflect on: does a story’s status as a fragment of a larger work reconfigure our understanding of it differently than if we were to view the story as an independent whole?