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Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100375504834
ISBN-139780375504839
eBay Product ID (ePID)1932751
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleAusterlitz
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Historical
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorW. G. Sebald
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight22 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-019785
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"W. G. Sebald is a monster -- a gorgeous and unwaveringly assured writer, a bold formal innovator, and a man always plunging into the core of identity, singular and national. In Austerlitz, he's created his richest and most emotionally devastating story, and this book might be his finest." - Dave Eggers, "who has no right to be commenting on this man." "With untraceable swiftness and assurance, W. G. Sebald's writing conjures from the details and sequences of daily life, and their circumstances and encounters, from apparent chance and its unsounded calculus, the dimension of dream and a sense of the depth of time that make his books, one by one, indispensable. He evokes at once the minutiae and the vastness of individual existence, the inconsolable sorrow of history and the scintillating beauty of the moment and its ground of memory. Each book seems to be something that surely was impossible, and each (upon every re-reading) is unique and astonishing." - W. S. Merwin
Dewey Decimal833/.914
SynopsisOver the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers' stops across England and Europe, W.G. Sebald's unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz's ongoing efforts to understand who he is. An orphan who came to England alone in the summer of 1939 and was raised by a Welsh Methodist minister and his wife as their own, Austerlitz grew up with no conscious memory of where he came from. W.G. Sebald embodies in Austerlitz the universal human search for identity, the struggle to impose coherence on memory, a struggle complicated by the mind's defenses against trauma. Along the way, this novel of many riches dwells magically on a variety of subjects -- railway architecture, military fortifications; insets, plants, and animals; the constellations; works of art; the strange contents of the museum of a veterinary school; a small circus; and the three capital cities that loom over the book, London, Paris, and Prague -- in the service of its astounding vision.
LC Classification NumberPT2681.E18A9513 2001
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