This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s Pages: Austerlitz () was W.G. Sebald's final novel before his tragic death in It won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was ranked at number five on The /5(K). · Austerlitz is just as bleak and self-contained a work, only longer. Its main protagonist is an elderly architectural historian, Jacques www.doorway.ru: Andy Beckett.
Austerlitz is a historical novel by W. G. Sebald, who was a German writer and academic with an interest in the loss of memory and physical objects. He wrote mainly about World War II's effect on German people, which he explored through his books. The main character is Jacques Austerlitz. W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He has taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, since , becoming professor of European literature in , and from to was the first director of the British Center for. The turning point in W.G. Sebald's latest novel, "Austerlitz," comes when the title character wanders into the disused Ladies Waiting Room at the Liverpool Street Station in London sometime in the.
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. In the story of Austerlitz, the author W.G Sebald in a stroke of ingenuity uses a narrator whose voice the audience would want to think is the author’s to lay out the story. The author strives to flirt with the reader on the cover page of the novel by going as far as showing how the narrator is an unhappy protagonist child growing up in White Ruffles. If the mark of a great novel is that it creates its own world, drawing in the reader with its distinctive rhythms and reverberations, then W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz may be the first great novel of the new century. An unnamed narrator, resting in a waiting room of the Antwerp rail station in the late s, strikes up a conversation with a student of architecture named Austerlitz, about whom he knows almost nothing.
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