W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz (2001)

24 December 2012, dusan

Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood.”

Originally published in German by C. Hanser, Munich, 2001.
Translated by Anthea Bell
Introduction by James Wood
Publisher Random House, 2001
ISBN 0812982614, 9780812982619

review (James Wood, London Review of Books)
review (Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian)
review (Charles Saumarez Smith, The Observer)

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