Netting the Butterfly Man:

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" Netting the Butterfly Man: "
Maxim Shrayer, Adrian Curtin

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082236
Doc. No	:	LA125865
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852905775008868‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Adrian Curtin
	:	Maxim Shrayer
Title & Author	:	Netting the Butterfly Man: [Article] : The Significance of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebalds The Emigrants\ Maxim Shrayer, Adrian Curtin
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2005
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/3-4
Page No	:	258–283
Abstract	:	"In this essay, we examine the role of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (1992; Eng. tr. 1996), both as a character in the novel (as the unannounced "butterfly man") and as an intertextual and metaphysical point of reference. It is our contention that this authorial intervention on Sebald's part may stem from the fact that both the German-born Sebald and the Russian-born Nabokov were spiritual witnesses to the Shoah, and though they were non-Jewish authors, they were committed to the artistic reckoning of this event through writing and memory. To this end, we offer a reading of The Emigrants that re-interprets the book in the light of Nabokov's continued presence, juxtaposing the artistic systems of these two authors and considering their respective approaches to catastrophe, as well as the shared possibility in their art that the human spirit may survive and endure."
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852905775008868‬