{"id":254716,"date":"2007-08-20T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/20\/predecessor-to-w-g-sebald\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:47","slug":"predecessor-to-w-g-sebald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/20\/predecessor-to-w-g-sebald\/","title":{"rendered":"Predecessor to W. G. Sebald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversationalreading.com\/2007\/08\/where-sebalds-p.html\">Scott Esposito<\/a> brought this <a href=\"http:\/\/sebald.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/13\/shadows-across-the-text\/\">interesting post<\/a> about Georges Rodenbach\u2019s <i>Bruges-la-Morte<\/i> to our attention. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some of the photographs in the Max Ferber section of W. G. Sebald&#8217;s <i>The Emigrants<\/i> harken back to what is probably the earliest work of fiction ever to embed photographs, Georges Rodenbach\u2019s <i>Bruges-la-Morte.<\/i> Somehow I feel that Sebald knew this seminal work, which was first published in book form in 1892 (after appearing serially in Paris&#8217; <i>Le Figaro<\/i>). Rodenbach&#8217;s Symbolist novel is the story of love and murder in the \u201cdead\u201d city of Bruges. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The book sounds fascinating, and is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlaspress.co.uk\/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&#38;number=12\">Atlas Books.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Esposito brought this interesting post about Georges Rodenbach\u2019s Bruges-la-Morte to our attention. Some of the photographs in the Max Ferber section of W. G. Sebald&#8217;s The Emigrants harken back to what is probably the earliest work of fiction ever to embed photographs, Georges Rodenbach\u2019s Bruges-la-Morte. Somehow I feel that Sebald knew this seminal work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[4616,4606,426,1836,4596,416,1066],"class_list":["post-254716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-atlas-books","tag-bruges-la-morte","tag-conversational-reading","tag-cwp","tag-georges-rodenbach","tag-scott-esposito","tag-w-g-sebald"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363156,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254716\/revisions\/363156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}