Author: Winfried Georg Sebald File Type: epub A masterpiece.Richard Eder, The New York Times. Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as one of the best novels to appear since World War II (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen as the 1996 International Book of the Year. The poignant and acclaimed novel about the beauty of lost things, while the protagonist traces the lives of four elderly GermanJewish exiles. The Emigrants is composed of four long narratives which at first appear to be the straightforward accounts of the lives of several Jewish exiles in England, Austria, and America. The narrator literally follows their footsteps, studding each story with photographs and creating the impression that the reader is poring over a family album. But gradually, Sebalds prose, which combines documentary description with almost hallucinatory fiction, exerts a new magic, and the four stories merge into one. Illustrated throughout with enigmatic photographs. **htmlAmazon.com Review A meditation on memory and loss. Sebald re-creates the lives of four exiles--five if you include his oblique self-portrait--through their own accounts, others recollections, and pictures and found objects. But he brings these men before our eyes only to make them fade away, longing for extinction. Two were eventual suicides, another died in an asylum, the fourth still lived under a poisonous canopy more than 40 years after his parents death in Nazi Germany. Sebalds own longing is for communion. En route to Ithaca (the real upstate New York location but also the symbolic one), he comes to feel like a travelling companion of my neighbor in the next lane. After the car speeds away--the children pulling clownish faces out of the rear window--I felt deserted and desolate for a time. Sebalds narrative is purposely moth-holed (butterfly-ridden, actually--theres a recurring Nabokov-with-a-net type), an escape from the prison-house of realism. According to the author, his Uncle Ambross increasingly improbable tales were the result of an illness which causes lost memories to be replaced by fantastic inventions. Luckily for us, Sebald seems to have inherited the same syndrome. --Kerry Fried From Publishers Weekly Composed of four compelling portraits of Jewish emigres whose lives have been scarred by exile, dislocation and persecution, this unusual work of fiction is pervaded by a sensibility and a degree of circumstantial detail so authentic that it could pass for historical documentation. That Sebald has invested his fictional creations with both dignity and pathos is a mark of his achievement here. A narrator provides perspective on the lives he relates. Retired surgeon Henry Selwyn was born Hersch Seweryn and changed his name after arrival in England his disclosure of his true origins to his Swiss wife causes an irreparable rift in their marriage and an essential loss of identity in the now aimless man. Paul Bereyter, fired from his post as schoolteacher in Germany because he is one-quarter Jewish, serves six years in the Germany army and is haunted by the bestial violence he witnesses. Ambros Adelwarth escapes Germany, finally settling in the U.S. Concealing his traumas from family members, he commits himself to a sanitarium at age 67 and undergoes electroshock therapy, longing for extinction. German-born artist Max Ferber, a recluse in Manchester, England, suffers claustrophobia stemming from the deportation and murder of his parents by Nazis. Though none of the protagonists is thrown into a concentration camp, they are all haunted by the effects of the Holocaust. Two of them eventually commit suicide, all suffer shame and guilt, claustrophobia and depression. Photographs interwoven with the restrained text add to the cumulative effect, which is that of an eerie memento. Long after the Nazis have fallen, these exiled individuals endure existential agony and emotional breakdowns. German novelist and literary scholar Sebald, who has lived in England since 1970, won the Berlin Literature Prize for this remarkable work. 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. html

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Author: Martina Tazzioli File Type: pdf Much work has been done on the causes and characteristics of the Arab Spring, but relatively little research has examined the political and spatial consequences that have developed following the uprisings. This book engages with the ways in which spaces in Southern Europe and Northern Africa have been negotiated and transformed by migrants in the wake of the uprisings, showing that their struggles are a continuation of their political movement. Drawing on an innovative countermapping approach, based on radical cartography, Martina Tazzioli illustrates the spatial upheavals caused by migration in the Mediterranean and the transformations created by migration controls applied by European nations. With critical insight on the application of Foucaults concept of governmentality to migration studies, exploration of a reconfigured theory of autonomy of migration and discussion of the politics of invisibility that underpins migration, this book sheds new light on the enduring struggles that follow the Arab Spring.

Author: David Hyder File Type: epub This book is a collection of essays on Husserls Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserls last work has never received the attention its authors prominence demands. In the Crisis, Husserl considers the gap that has grown between the life-world of everyday human experience and the world of mathematical science. He argues that the two have become disconnected because we misunderstand our own scientific pastwe confuse mathematical idealities with concrete reality and thereby undermine the validity of our immediate experience. The philosophers foundational work in the theory of intentionality is relevant to contemporary discussions of qualia, naive science, and the fact-value distinction. The scholars included in this volume consider Husserls diagnosis of this crisis and his proposed solution. Topics addressed include Husserls late philosophy, the relation between scientific and everyday objects and worlds, the history of Greek and Galilean science, the philosophy of history, and Husserls influence on Foucault.