The Elsewhere
On Belonging at a Near Distance: Reading Literary Memoir from Europe and the Levant
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments.......................................................................................................................................xi
Introduction: Sta Viator..........................................................................................................................................3
1 Place from Place, and Place from Flight: W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants and Aharon Appelfeld's The Iron Tracks...................................................41
2 Flight from Flight, and Flight from Border: Witold Gombrowicz's Diary and A Kind of Testament and Essays and Short Fiction by Bruno Schulz.....................96
3 Border from Border: Elias Canetti's The Tongue Set Free and The Voices of Marrakesh and Gregor von Rezzori's The Snows of Yesteryear...........................155
4 Border from Beyond: Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt and Edward Said's Out of Place........................................................................ ... read full excerpt from The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance ebook