Mediated
and Remediated Memories of Catastrophe:
A
Hypermedia Site Devoted to
W.G. Sebald
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"and so, said Austerlitz, we began a long, whispered conversation [...] about the dissolution, in line with the inexorable spread of processed data, of our capacity to remember [...]. The new library building [...] might be described [...] as the official manifestation of the increasingly importunate urge to break with everything which still has some living connection to the past" (286) | ||
| "Yet to this day, when I see photographs or documentary films dating from the war I feel as if I were its child, so to speak, as if those horrors I did not experience cast a shadow over me, and one from which I shall never entirely emerge" (On the Natural History of Destruction, 71) | |
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"Austerlitz spoke at length about the marks of pain which [...] trace countless fine lines through history" (14) | |
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