{"id":5244,"date":"2016-08-30T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2016-08-30T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:40:29","slug":"dispatches-from-zembla-the-posthumous-sublime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/dispatches-from-zembla-the-posthumous-sublime\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches from Zembla: The Posthumous Sublime"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Alok writes: &#8220;The Emigrants is the best book of fiction that I have read this year so far (I read it in January). I felt hopelessly incapable to write anything about it so I am reproducing a review by Cynthia Ozick first published in The New Republic. It is not freely available on the internet and don&#8217;t ask me how I got access to new republic archives.The Emigrants by W. G. Sebaldtranslated by Michael Hulse(New Directions, 237 pp., $22.95) There is almost no clarifying publisher&#8217;s apparatus surrounding W. G. Sebald&#8217;s restless, melancholy and (I am almost sorry to say) sublime narrative quartet. One is compelled&#8211;ludicrously, clumsily&#8211;to settle for that hapless term, what is a &#8220;narrative quartet&#8217;?) because the very identity of this work remains murky.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marcelproust.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/posthumous-sublime.html\">Dispatches from Zembla: The Posthumous Sublime<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alok writes: &#8220;The Emigrants is the best book of fiction that I have read this year so far (I read it in January). I felt hopelessly incapable to write anything about it so I am reproducing a review by Cynthia Ozick first published in The New Republic. It is not freely available on the internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,130,139],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeanclaudelejeune.com\/jcl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}