Literature in Spite of All: two views on the melancholic romance of W.G. Sebald. This thesis takes as starting point the assumption that the literature of the German writer WG Sebald, touching the traces of the wounded material of post-Shoah survivors, as well as of so many other catastrophes of the bourgeois capitalist era, from colonialism to the domination of nature and environmental degradation, emits a gesture of uprising in the sense that literature emerges as an affirmation of life, of the redemptive memory of those who have been swallowed up by barbarism, and of fostering new ways of entering the past and returning to the chain of struggles of those who, brushing history against the grain, intuited a fair future and free from the historical enemy that insists on lasting. It is the very possibility of writing and producing literature during and despite the 1990s in a horizon of disenchantment with dreams and utopias that marked the failed twentieth century, that melancholy Sebald potentializes by presenting to the world his four novels. It is a creative melancholy, insurgent and committed to the issues of his time, which we intuit in a cross-reflection especially with Didi-Huberman and Enzo Traverso, and which will be demonstrated in an anatomical reading of two novels: The rings of Saturn (1995) and Austerlitz (2001).