A Melancholy Journey through Landscapes of Transience
Saturn is the planet of melancholy, about which Walter Benjamin writes: “I came into the world under the sign of Saturn - the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.” W. G. Sebald’s prose poetics seems to be driven by this motion, which is more than a simple state of being:...
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| Language: | English |
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2015-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0036 |