Bild unserer irren Anwesenheit / auf der Oberfläche der Erde. The image as a natural history of the present in the poetics of W. G. Sebald

Authors

  • Salvatore Tedesco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/5366

Keywords:

Natural History, Time, Material, Form, Sebald.

Abstract

The poem Nach der Natur by W. G. Sebald, real germinal place of its author’s subsequent literary production, is a salient moment of confrontation for today's philosophical gaze; our historical time and our own humanity are configured as “natural history” (Benjamin), in a compositional game in which the present time acquires the character of a timeless distance projecting it on the background of a mournful nature, entrusting to the roughness of the poetic material and to its conceptual weaving the task of an unprecedented presentification of some layers of reality of rare density.

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Published

2017-12-12

How to Cite

Tedesco, S. (2017). Bild unserer irren Anwesenheit / auf der Oberfläche der Erde. The image as a natural history of the present in the poetics of W. G. Sebald. Bollettino Filosofico, 32, 389–409. https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/5366

Issue

Vol. 32 (2017): Poetry and philosophy compared. Starting from the modern

Section

Forum

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