- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Fiction, Holocaust survivors, Architectural historians
"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.
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Grave, contemplative, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- C. Hanser, Adelphi, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Italian, srp, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780676974331
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- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Fiction
- Holocaust survivors
- Architectural historians
- Depersonalization
- Jews
- Fiction, historical, general
- Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), fiction
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00958866
- Fiction, general
“In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just one or two days, sometimes for several weeks.”
Winfried Georg Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In a 2007 interview, Horace Engdahl, former secretary of the Swedish Academy, mentioned Sebald, Ryszard Kapuściński and Jacques Derrida as three recently deceased writers who would have been worthy laureates. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._G._Sebald
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