Narrative, memory, and visual image : W.G. Sebold's 'Luftkrieg und literatur' and 'Austerlitz'

Lothe demonstates that the incorporation of visual images into written narratives about the Holocaust can have wide-ranging thematic, aesthetic and ethical consequences. He considers 'Austerlitz' as a fiction whose oblique rendering of the Holocaust insists on this event's historical veracity while at the same time demonstrating the unavoidable shortcomings of human memory