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| Author(s): |
Douglas Valeriano Pompeu
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-03-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Helmut Paul Erich Galle;
Jorge Mattos Brito de Almeida;
Márcio Orlando Seligmann Silva
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| Advisor: | Helmut Paul Erich Galle |
| Abstract | |
In 2001 was published the last book of the renowned German author W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz. The digression, the melancholic tone, the use of factual references and photographs in the text are characteristic for the narrative, which is also marked by its hybrid genre between the factual and the fictional, that can also be called autofiction. The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the function of photographs in Austerlitz, especially in conjunction with the text, with the limitation of their illustrations and with memory. Even if Austerlitz actually is called a fictional narrative, the present investigation seeks to ascertain how the indicative nature of photographic images can be manipulated by the author and how the manipulation of the photograph as evidence and witness account acts in the composition of a narrative, which can be a solution to the representation\'s problem in the literature and in the memory after Auschwitz. The analysis, which in part attempts to introduce the digressive character of the sebaldian narrative, focuses on the topicalization and reproduction of photography inside the text, and on the poetic technique which may be revealed by the author´s heritage stored in Marbach am Neckar, Germany. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/13039-7 - Shadows of the Real in Austerlitz: Investigation of the Use of Photography in the Work of W. G. Sebald |
| Grantee: | Douglas Valeriano Pompeu |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |