Ler o tempo no espaço

This paper consists of three movements: the first discusses Karl Schlögel's ideas presented in his book In Space We Read Time (2003); the second is a critical analysis of the novel Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald, focusing on the mobilization of the city of Paris; the third and last one further examines the questions raised in the previous two sections, identifying in Sebald's work an imaginative prospection of the repressed layers of urban experience. Austerlitz represents Paris as an excerpt that focuses on the National Library of France and its surroundings, from World War II to the late 1990s. The emergence of this architectural enterprise is evoked by Sebald under the sign of ambivalence: a place of memory and oblivion, a space of "light" and "darkness", a site of creation and destruction

Humanities · Philosophy · Urban Development and Societal Issues