Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald

Investigates the connections between German writers H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald and reveals a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust in light of the wider literary—political implications of Holocaust representation since 1945.



Since 1945, authors and scholars have intensely debated what form literary fiction about the Holocaust should take. The works of H. G. Adler (1910—1988) and W. G. Sebald (1944—2001), two modernist scholar—poets who settled in England but never met, present n...