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"Remembrance . . . is nothing other than a quotation": The Intertextual Fictions of W. G. Sebald

READERS OF W. G. SEBALD'S original and genre-breaking narratives cannot but be aware of the extent to which he draws on and incorporates other texts as raw material for his own, whether in the essayistic mode of The Rings of Saturn or the fictional reworking of Stendhal and Kafka in Vertigo, to name the two most obvious examples. Less obvious-to the casual reader at least-is the extent to which Sebald weaves unmarked quotation and allusion into his texts. In Mark McCulloh's words, "As a scholar and teacher of European literature . . . Sebald is steeped in the texts, some quite obscure, of a much broader range of writers, Latin-American as well as European. It should come as no surprise that ...

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