Vladimir Biti, Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, is the author of Perpetrators’ Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald and McEwan (Routledge). The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who strive to disentangle themselves from the hierarchies of power inherited from the age of imperialism. To this end, Biti argues, both writers undertake a subtle detachment from the analogously implicated subject positions of their protagonists. Such a detachment from familiar protagonists, however, requires the consent of unknown readers with whom the writers forge a long-distance solidarity, connective association or complicitous alliance. Thus, in order to exempt themselves from one complicity, Sebald and McEwan in effect enter another one.