by
James Wood
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W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
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terms
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notes
volubility
(en)
the quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly; talkativeness
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[...] As Roland Barthes rightly says in his Camera Lucida, a book with which Austerlitz is in deep dialogue, photographs shock us because they so finally represent what has been. We look at most old photographs, and we think: 'That person is going to die, and is in fact now dead.' Barthes calls photographers 'agents of death', because they freeze the subject and the moment into finitude. [...]
[...] As Roland Barthes rightly says in his Camera Lucida, a book with which Austerlitz is in deep dialogue, photographs shock us because they so finally represent what has been. We look at most old photographs, and we think: 'That person is going to die, and is in fact now dead.' Barthes calls photographers 'agents of death', because they freeze the subject and the moment into finitude. [...]
reifying
(en)
make (something abstract) more concrete or real
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stolid
(en)
calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation
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As the stolid rugby players do not, these victims seem to be looking at us
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As the stolid rugby players do not, these victims seem to be looking at us
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veridical
(en)
(adjective) truthful veracious / (adjective) not illusory; genuine
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undeniably accurate and veridical photographs of buildings
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undeniably accurate and veridical photographs of buildings
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vertiginous
(en)
causing vertigo, especially by being extremely high or steep
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we experience a vertiginous relationship to a select number of photographs of humans
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we experience a vertiginous relationship to a select number of photographs of humans
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