Rachel Seiffert - Literature
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Seiffert’s fiction also aspires to the condition of poetry: it makes use of each word. ’ The ‘dark room’, is an apt metaphor. It is only through the slow process of exposure and development that an image will be fixed. But is such a reproduction of a moment possible? What is beyond the frame? Who is
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- Seiffert’s fiction also aspires to the condition of poetry: it makes use of each word.
- ’ The ‘dark room’, is an apt metaphor. It is only through the slow process of exposure and development that an image will be fixed. But is such a reproduction of a moment possible? What is beyond the frame? Who is the photographer?
- Seiffert, whose mother is German, has said, ‘as a child I had a vague feeling that being German was bad. Being a German meant being a Nazi, meant being evil.’ Like W.G. Sebald’s masterful Austerlitz, The Dark Room is Seiffert’s treatment of the denial of the German nation its right to the exorcism of the trauma and grief of war. It investigates the...
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