Memory as an “unknown life form”

W. G. Sebald and the Contemporary Balkan novel (or once again about the museum structured novel)

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DOI :

https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2025..141-153

Mots-clés :

W.G. Sebald, Andreea Răsuceanu, Antonis Georgiu, Galin Nikiforov, memory, museum structured novel, album, diary

Résumé

The article is a kind of “return” to the double optics of the concept concerning the museum in literature and literature in the use of the museum – the museum as a specific narrative model, but also as a cultural metaphor. This is an attempt to trace the possible points of “intersection” between the works of W. G. Sebald and selected novels by contemporary Balkan writers, such as Andreea Răsuceanu, Antonis Georgiu and Galin Nikiforov. The focus of the study is on the museum's “archiving” function to include different narrative forms in the genre of the novel. The comparative analysis highlights the visual transformations of memory in the form of album/diary/home/temple which constructs a space independent of time and marked by enormous narrative potential in the museum structured novel.

 

Biographie de l'auteur

  • Veselina Beleva

    Veselina Beleva is a curator of Yordan Yovkov Memorial House, part of the Regional History Museum in Dobrich. In 2020, she received a Ph.D. degree with a thesis on The War and the Museum – Structuring Memory in Contemporary Balkan Novel (Female Voices from the Second Half of the 20th Century developed at Sofia University. She is the author of articles, as well as the editor of scientific and popular science publications. Her research interests are in the field of Balkan Studies and Comparative Literary Studies.

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2025-10-14

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Memory as an “unknown life form”: W. G. Sebald and the Contemporary Balkan novel (or once again about the museum structured novel). (2025). Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum, 11, 141-153. https://doi.org/10.60056/CCL.2025..141-153